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Milk Thistle No Help in Tough Hep C Cases (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Silymarin, a milk thistle extract, probably will not be of much help to patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) who have already failed interferon therapy, researchers found.

Milk Thistle of Little Help Against Hepatitis C: Study

TUESDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- Many patients with chronic hepatitis C turn to an alternative herbal treatment known as milk thistle, but a new study finds that it has little effect on the liver...

Milk thistle, taken by many people for liver disease, ineffective as treatment for hepatitis C

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Silymarin or "milk thistle," a popular herbal dietary supplement that many people take for liver ailments, works no better than placebo in patients with chronic hepatitis C infec...

Milk thistle, taken by many people for liver disease, ineffective as treatment for hepatitis C, study suggests

A new multicenter trial finds that taking silymarin (milk thistle) has no effect on serum ALT or levels of the hepatitis C virus in people with chronic hepatitis C infection.

Treating chronic hepatitis C with milk thistle extract does not appear beneficial

Use of the botanical product silymarin, an extract of milk thistle that is commonly used by some patients with chronic liver disease, did not provide greater benefit than placebo for patients with tre...

Silibinin, found in milk thistle, protects against UV-induced skin cancer

(University of Colorado Denver) A pair of University of Colorado Cancer Center studies published this month show that the milk thistle extract, silibinin, kills skin cells mutated by UVA radiation and...

Chronic HCV: No Benefit From Milk Thistle

Higher-than-customary dosages of milk thistle had no significant effect vs placebo on liver enzymes or viral load in patients with hepatitis C. Medscape Medical News

Really?: The Claim: Milk Thistle Combats Liver Disease

Inhibitory effects of commonly used herbal extracts on UGT1A1 enzyme activity.

Commonly used herbal supplements were screened for their potential to inhibit UGT1A1 activity using human liver microsomes. Extracts screened included ginseng, echinacea, black cohosh, milk thistle, g...

Effect of silymarin (milk thistle) on liver disease in patients with chronic hepatitis C unsuccessfully treated with interferon therapy: a randomized controlled trial.

The botanical product silymarin, an extract of milk thistle, is commonly used by patients to treat chronic liver disease, despite scant and conflicting evidence of its efficacy.

Fungal profiles in various milk thistle botanicals from US retail.

Milk thistle (MT) dietary supplements are widely consumed due to their possible beneficial effect on liver health. As botanicals, they can be contaminated with a variety of fungi and their secondary m...

Multiclass mycotoxin analysis in Silybum marianum by ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry using a procedure based on QuEChERS and dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction.

Ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) has been proposed for the determination of 15 mycotoxins in milk thistle (Silybum marianum), including aflatoxins, f...

Evaluation of the effect of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin on topical administration of milk thistle extract.

Two water in oil emulsions composed by eudermic ingredients as glycerin, cocoa butter, almond oil and a variety of lipids, were enriched respectively with milk thistle dry extract (MT) or with a binar...