A 77-year-old woman with a history of hepatitis C cirrhosis presents to the emergency department with 24 hours of progressive ...

A rule-based algorithm enabled the automatic extraction of disease labels from tens of thousands of radiology reports. These weak labels were used to create deep learning models to classify multiple ...

The downstream mechanisms by which endocrine disturbances cause liver disease might be similar to those involved in the development of primary liver disease. Hypothyroidism, for example ...

The hormone insulin helps get the glucose from digested food into your cells. People with fatty liver disease often have a condition called insulin resistance. That means your body makes insulin ...

One drug, resmetirom (Rezdiffra), is approved to treat the advanced stage of the condition, called metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease (MASH) with greater degrees of fibrosis.

Lactulose is the first-line therapy for hepatic encephalopathy ... 29 A potential limitation of this study is that most patients had hepatitis C as the underlying cause of liver disease; therefore, ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are the two most common causes of chronic liver disease in North America. NAFLD represents a spectrum of liver lesions that ...

One of the greatest public health achievements in history, vaccines are credited for the massive decline of potentially dangerous diseases like measles and polio. Although the majority of families ...

A phase 3 trial of GSK’s linerixibat in a liver disease has hit its primary endpoint, keeping the drugmaker on track to launch the first treatment for the relentless itching experienced by some ...

If you have cirrhosis, you may need to take lactulose long-term. Cirrhosis is a condition where your liver has become severely scarred. This damage is permanent and greatly affects your liver’s ...

The Canadian Chronic Disease Indicators (CCDI) provide information on chronic diseases, their determinants, and their risk and protective factors in Canada. Using an intuitive Data Tool, pan-Canadian ...