There is good news for alcoholic liver disease patients. A new therapy may be effective in successfully treating this disease. According to researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine they have for the first time successfully applied phage therapy in mice for alcoholic liver disease. The study is published in Nature. Alcohol damages liver cells. But it also diminishes natural gut antibiotics. This promotes bacterial growth in the liver and exacerbates alcohol-induced liver disease. Researchers in this study successfully linked a specific bacterial toxin to worse clinical outcomes in patients with alcoholic liver disease. They moreover