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 ...

Aug. 21, 2024 — A research team has shown the benefits of camu-camu on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This exotic fruit reduces liver fat ... Liver Transplant Outperforms Other Therapies for ...

Content developed independently by our editors and supported by our partners. You may only associate your liver with breaking down alcohol, but this organ—the largest in the body—plays a role ...

Itching (pruritus) is one symptom of chronic liver disease, though not everyone with liver disease develops it. You might have a localized itch, such as on your lower arm, or it might be an all ...

Renowned Tamil filmmaker Suresh Sangaiah passed away in Chennai on Friday, November 15, at the Rajiv Gandhi Hospital, following a lengthy struggle with liver failure. The announcement of his death was ...

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 ...

Acute liver failure (ALF) in children differs from that observed in adults in both the etiologic spectrum and the clinical picture. Children, particularly very young ones, do not demonstrate ...

Fatty liver disease may contribute to fragmented sleep patterns, robbing already sick people of good rest, a new study finds. These folks woke up more often in the night, and then lay awake longer ...

Liver disease, which is treatable when discovered early, often goes undetected until late stages, but a new study revealed that an algorithm fueled by artificial intelligence can accurately detect ...

Furthermore, conditions such as bacterial overgrowth, coexistent small intestinal disease (inflammatory bowel ... of various proteins from the affected liver, the diminished storage capacity ...

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 ...