I hope the people who make remarks so insensitve to people dying get what is coming to them. I am married with a child on the way with a rare liver disease that strikes 1 in 100,000 people, and now will only see 5 to 10 years of my childs life. I hope you take a long look at the way you live your life I do. In case your wondering my condition is called primary schlorosing cholingitous or psc.

jeremy, gilbert, az

It always makes me smile when i see moralising on a certain issue, this tie cirhossis. Ignorant people who have no idea the difficulty in getting help when one is labelled an abusive drinker. Cirhossis can be caused by a plathora of reasons.
I would also like to say that people should have a good look in the mirror before criticsing...what about materialiasm, adultery, under age sex, slander, selffishness...many of these comments come from poisoned minds, just not drunken ones...i would rather die young and an alcoholic than turn into one of you pre-judging philistines!

DR, Brighton, UK

To all of the people that made derogatory remarks about a possible "cure" for cirrhosis.

Please think about people like my husband who have the disease through no fault of their own.

My husband has a deficiency, which is little known about in general public, which causes cirhossis, even if you don't touch alcohol. It is called "Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency". It is apparently undiagnosed in a large proportion of the population, especially people being treated for Emphysemia. I just hope that those of you making derogatory remarks are not
one of the undiagnosed.


Carole

Surrey

carole, surrey, uk

Alcoholism is an illness not an open invitation to abuse.

Jan, Stoke on Trent, Staffs

As someone who has hepatitis c and cirrhosis as a result, undergoing extremely difficult treatment which has a 50/50 chance of working and with sever toxic side efffects, I am so very heartened by this news. ps I don't drink alcohol....

Anon, Cheltenham,

Hopefully this will also help those with other chronic liver diseases which are nothing to do with alcohol, like the auto immune disease Primary bilary cirrhosis.-- It is a shame any illness relating to the liver has the cirrhosis tag on it, which kicks off the nasty remarks we see here.

JRB QLD Australia

Judi Bourseguin, Gold Coast, Australia

It should be available in bars without prescription!!!

Dave, London, UK

Oh that's good news for all the binge drinking cretins who litter the streets at the weekend. They may as well roll around in the gutter if the NHS will fork out millions to 'make them better'.

Judy , Liverpool, england

Alcoholics pay huge amounts of tax on their habit, so they should be entitled to treatment just like anyone else. And without drinkers and smokers, we would probably pay twice as much for road tax and VAT.

CL, bristol, bristol

Should be afforded to anyone willing to be the "first" humans to use the new medicines no matter status of liver or by means acquired. Those first volunteer patients for new medical procedures are real heros.

Grace E., Washington D.C., D.C.

While this is absolutely great news, when this treatment is began on humans, it should first go to patients who have contacted the disease by other means than alcohol consumption and then alcholics should be monitored ensuring that this is not a wasted or abused treated for them continue abusing their bodies but a second chance to stop a deadly habit.

Darlene, Loganville, Georgia

As I recall, from a Time story some years ago (which I cannot locate), researchers at Imperial College Hospital London had developed the means to regenerate the liver through some sort of external assist device - much like those external heart assist pumps used by recovering heart transplant patients.
Could The Times re-run that story or an update on this development?

Larry, Middletown, USA/NY

Well there is hope for all us alcholics now !! ching ching !!

At this time of year it is irresponsible to highlight such findings !!

JC, Glasgow, Scotland