Coffee may slow liver disease

Drinking coffee could help slow the progression of fibrosis in patients with fatty liver disease, according to new research presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases' annual meeting. And a separate study presented at the same meeting found that patients with chronic hepatitis C who drank the most coffee and had failed standard treatment fared much better with retreatment. While the beneficial mechanism is not yet understood, these studies add to the number of beneficial studies that already existed.