🍎 An apple a day… really can help keep liver disease away! In this short #WorldLiverDay message, Prof. Debbie Shawcross, EASL Vice Secretary, reminds us that simple, accessible foods like apples can have a big impact on our health. Rich in pectin, apples support a healthy gut

The 10 most striking Kaplan-Meier curves (that I have seen) 🧵 1. Dual GLP1/GIP agonist, Tirzepatide, for prevention of type 2 diabetes in people with obesity It's easy to miss the dark blue line (15 mg group), because it never leaves the X axis:

Important data in #MASH but probably not the game changer some think 75% of patients had a potential indication for SEMA, BMI>30 or T2DM GLP1RA is a foundational treatment for patients with metabolic multimorbidity If initiated for those reasons, MASH indication not needed

Looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues EASL Education But first, cycling for liver health and sustainability. Stage 1 complete, next stage Rotterdam to Amsterdam tomorrow! #EASLCongress

🇬🇧 CALIBRE trial – D. Tripathi at #EASL2025 RCT: carvedilol vs VBL for 1º prevention in cirrhosis 🟰 No difference in bleeding or survival at 12 months 💊 Carvedilol safe, simpler & cost-effective 📉 Follow-up limited (12 mo), but extension planned ⚠️ Underpowered due to COVID

NOCA is delighted with the ministerial announcement today to provide ongoing funding to support the Irish Potential Donor Audit in 2025. This comes as part of the imminent national legislative framework for donation and transplantation services. As Organ Donation Awareness Week

Happy #InternationalNursesDay2025 to all of our wonderful #IHNA members 💚 A healthy nursing workforce strengthens economies, improves health systems, ensuring better outcomes for communities globally 🙏🏻 Irishliverfoundation NMPDU Dublin and North East NMPDU South West NMPDUNorthWest HSE Ireland

Great talks today from the NCHD’s representing the National Liver Transplant Unit St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH) at the ISG Summer Meeting! Well done to all involved 👏🏻 Audrey Dillon

Today is the first day of World Haemochromatosis Awareness Week - and the official start of summer! Watch out for updates over this important week and help us spread the word. For more information and resources visit: haemochromatosis.ie #WHW2025 #ironoverload #gettested

🗣️ National Cancer Survivors Day was yesterday 🔉 . HCC is the 5th most common cancer worldwide and the 3rd most common cause of cancer death 📈 . Check out this fantastic review of the BSG HCC guidelines. It highlights important updates, as well as unacceptable mortality, and

This week is #Haemochromatosis Awareness Week 1 in 83 people in Ireland may have this genetic condition causing iron overload. Early detection is key—awareness is the 1st step Visit our stand & meet CNM2 Bonita Rodrigues ✔Know the signs ✔Talk to your GP ✔Get tested #WHW2025

Thank you SO much to Bonita Rodrigues St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH) for doing amazing work to raise awareness of #haemochromatosis during #WHW2025 We love your posters too!

Hepatitis B can be passed from parent to baby at birth - and when that happens, the consequences can be deadly. It is unscientific & dangerous to ignore the success of U.S. vaccination programs or argue that the U.S. should not vaccinate babies for hepatitis B at birth.

Incredible. 👋Meet Vicki, a mum-of-two who is the second person in the country have a liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer. It means she's now cancer free.💙 🗣️"My team at Leeds didn’t just look after me, they thought about my family as well." leedsth.nhs.uk/news/mum-of-tw…

Consultants SHOULD see pts on their own! Using resident doctors just to drive computers is awful! Work fit for only someone else! The hoo-ha over derogations has prompted me think a bit more about what ACTUALLY happens on a WR. Thread about cognition + safety 🧵 1/

Unsure regarding chemoprophylaxis for hepatitis B? Launching React Hep B - lnkd.in/gDP4N84y Select the Hep B status, medication, and the recommendations of AGA, EASL, GESA is automatically provided with a link to publications related to the medication. #livertwitter

Such an important initiative 👏🏻 Liver disease is silent until advanced stages when symptoms start to show. Screening allows for early detection and intervention, aiming to prevent cirrhosis and liver cancer 💚 HSE Ireland Irish Haemochromatosis Association PBC Ireland AlcoholActionIreland

Our ILF heros braved the weather and volunteered their precious time to bring liver awareness (LISN to your Liver) out West today!! Building on our success in Dublin last week, the collaboration with our LISN friends is off to Cork next. Fantastic effort!! 👏

There's a myth that "vaccines were never tested against unvaccinated kids." This is false. In fact, the original clinical trials for many childhood vaccines depended on this direct comparison. We've documented several in our comprehensive vaccine RCT database. Let's look. 🧵

James is marking Organ Donation Week by sharing his remarkable journey with liver disease, highlighting the life-saving impact of organ donation. At five years old, James was diagnosed with a rare liver condition, congenital hepatic fibrosis, after a bout of chickenpox led to