Still, Perea is not the first case of a liver transplant successfully curing bowel cancer in a patient. The body of evidence ...

In a groundbreaking medical achievement in the UK, a 32-year-old woman from Manchester has undergone the country's first ...

Cirrhosis: Chronic and heavy alcohol use can cause scarring (fibrosis) in the liver, progressing to cirrhosis, where liver tissue is permanently damaged and replaced with scar tissue. At this stage, ...

Salk scientists link bile acids and immune cell performance in liver cancer, finding that supplementing the bile acid UDCA—already a current treatment for liver disease—and inhibiting bile ...

We all have a small amount of fat in our livers ... If you have cirrhosis, which is a late stage of liver disease where healthy liver tissue gets replaced by scar tissue, your symptoms may ...

Also known as liver resection, the surgery involves the removal of the cyst and a section of surrounding liver tissue. A partial hepectomy can be performed laparoscopically or with traditional open ...

Jonathan Lidbury, assistant professor of small animal internal medicine at Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences ... But to diagnose most types of liver disease, microscopic analysis of liver ...

Healthy tissue is replaced by areas of liver fibrosis and regenerative nodules, which alters the normal structure of the liver. Results from the phase 2 MATCH01 clinical trial of autologous ...

A commentary author writes how that one to two drinks per day can lead to increases in the likelihood of several types of ...

Biological age refers to how old a person’s body is biologically, which may differ from their actual age in years.

A UC San Diego study links fatty liver disease, exacerbated by diets high in fat and sugar, to increased liver cancer risk. Damaged liver cells, unable to divide, may become cancerous over time.