Researchers predict a steady increase in fatty liver disease in the U.S. population, but there's not a lot of treatment options available.

The United States government has discontinued its free at-home COVID-19 test program after four years. The program, which began in 2021, shipped over 900 million tests directly to U.S. households.

Prolonged alcohol use can scar the liver, but treatment and staying alcohol-free may help prevent life-threatening problems.

Liver fibrosis is the build up of scar tissue in the liver when it tries to heal itself. Symptoms may include fatigue, ...

A small clinical trial in China suggests that a low-dose vitamin E supplement could improve liver tissues and scarring for ...

The retrospective observational study included adult patients from two large academic medical centres who had undergone both echocardiography and abdominal imaging – either ultrasound or magnetic ...

Turning 50 is a big milestone, but it's also the perfect time to get certain medical tests that help detect diseases early ...

TUCSON, Ariz., March 27, 2025 – Researchers from Critical Path Institute's® (C-Path) Predictive Safety Testing Consortium have proposed glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH) as a more liver-specific ...

At Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, near the outbreak’s epicenter, several patients have been found to have abnormal liver function on routine lab tests, a probable sign that they’ve ...

“The heart just functions as a heart to pump the blood. The major function of the kidney is to produce the urine. The liver has so many functions,” Wang, a surgeon in the Department of ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...