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This Liver Disease Hides In Plain Sight. NASH: A Silent Killer

NASH: A Silent Killer

NASH is a silent killer, difficult to diagnose and currently difficult to manage. Meet the scientists that aren’t taking that for an answer.

NASH, or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, is a liver disease that isn’t caused by the overconsumption of alcohol. What causes it and how are we learning to diagnose and understand this disease? Watch the episode of Cure Hunters above.

More Cure Hunters episodes:

Episode 1 | How Are Medicines Made?

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Episode 2 | Harnessing The Immune System To Fight Cancer

Episode 3 | The Itch That Rashes

Episode 5 | Precision Medicine: Targeting Cancer at The Source

Episode 6 | Building a Mirror Molecule

Episode 7 | Hunting Rare Diseases

Episode 8 | Take Your Breath Away

Episode 9 | Clinical Trials: Driving The Hunt Forward

Episode 10 | A Constant Threat

Episode 11 | Engineering Health