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St. Patrick’s Day: A time to toast ... your liver and how it deals with green beer

  • Written by Marie-Pierre Hasne, PhD, Pharm.D. Lecturer, College of Medicine-Tucson, University of Arizona
St. Patrick and Ireland may be mostly on your mind on March 17, but it's also a time to toast your liver.VGstockstudio/Shutterstock.com

St. Patrick’s Day is here, and even though most big celebrations have been canceled because of coronavirus, we still have something to cheer over – our livers.

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