One reason why our livers excel at clearing waste from our blood system is that the organ functions according to…
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Researchers discover that inflammation and aging contribute to non-viral liver cancer development. Green tea’s role in reversing some of the…
Read More » A comprehensive study from Karolinska Institutet shows that people with fatty liver disease have almost twice the mortality rate of…
Read More » When mothers eat a diet high in fat and sugars, their unborn babies can develop liver stress that continues into…
Read More » Researchers from Columbia University and the German Cancer Center have found that stellate cells — star-shaped liver cells long known…
Read More » Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type…
Read More » High levels of ammonia kill liver cells by damaging the mitochondria that power the cells. But this can be prevented…
Read More » Investigators have found that the gene Asah1 plays a crucial protective role in preventing the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver…
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Perhaps no vote was as agonizing for Senator Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican and medical doctor, than his vote to…
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As a measles outbreak expands in West Texas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, on Tuesday…
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