Siemens is launching its Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF) diagnostic in the U.S. this week to help test patients with chronic liver disease. This new testing service comes out of the Siemens Healthcare ...

Scientists have found that combining silybin with carvedilol works far better against liver fibrosis than either drug alone.

A new drug combination shows unexpected synergy against liver fibrosis. A new study reveals that using two drugs together produces a much stronger effect than using either one alone, suggesting a ...

A1C, LDL, HDL… the number of medical abbreviations you might see on your patient portal is enough to make you think your ...

Though it is predicted to become a top cause of organ damage and liver transplants within this decade, treatments for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, have stalled for a simple reason: It ...

A blood test looking for five specific proteins can predict metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, more commonly known as fatty liver disease, researchers are scheduled to report at ...

Q: I recently had some blood tests performed and my doctor told me that my liver tests were abnormal. He said that running might have caused these results. I rarely drink alcohol, and I’m in good ...

A liver ultrasound is a noninvasive test that produces images of a person’s liver and its blood vessels. A liver ultrasound can help diagnose various conditions that affect the liver, such as fatty ...

Routine blood tests are increasingly detecting elevated liver enzymes, which may signal liver stress or damage. While mild increases can be harmless, persistently high or rapidly rising levels, ...

While liver stiffness measurement by vibration-controlled transient elastography with a 25 kPa threshold might detect CSPH, the overall low quality of the studies means that these results are not very ...

A lab-grown liver stand-in may better predict bad responses to drugs than animal testing does. A human “liver chip” — liver cells grown on a membrane along with several types of supporting cells — ...