Time is flying by since that critical day and without a needed procedure, doctors estimate he has one or two years left to ...

The common sugar-free sweetener sorbitol may damage your liver in the same way as the older sweetener fructose, researchers ...

Liver is back in style, or maybe it was never in style. Still, health officials are recommending that, in the wake of high ...

Fatty liver disease affects roughly a third of American adults, most of whom don’t know they have it. Until last year, ...

The number of liver transplant procedures happening in the United States is rising. In fact, 2021 marked the ninth year in a row that the number of liver transplants increased. For the first time, ...

Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, an inherited disorder affecting 100,000 people in the U.S., causes a progressive and incurable ...

The patient had been living with Hepatitis B for several years and was diagnosed with HIV around three years ago. Over time, ...

Most people think of liver disease as something that happens to heavy drinkers. Or maybe to people managing obesity or ...

When it comes to blood sugar, insulin gets most of the attention. But there's another hormone quietly working in the ...

A liver biopsy is a diagnostic procedure that doctors perform to examine the health of liver tissue. It sometimes causes a small amount of pain, which should be manageable with medication. During a ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

A liver biopsy can be a costly procedure that may be necessary to help diagnose certain liver conditions. Several factors can affect the cost of a liver biopsy, including the type of biopsy and the ...