Young people and women are particularly vulnerable to MetALD, a dangerous merging of metabolic disease and alcohol use.

Researchers have uncovered evidence that a common “sugar-free” sweetener may mimic some of fructose’s harmful effects in the ...

Even though fatty liver is commonly overlooked as being insignificant or easily reversible, doctors now realize that, if left untreated, fatty liver disease can ultimately result in life threatening ...

This disruption has wide-ranging effects. When SIRT1 is suppressed, the liver shifts toward storing fat instead of burning it ...

Scientists have discovered that combining two existing drugs can dramatically reduce liver fat linked to a common and often silent disease. The treatment not only improved liver health in animal ...

Ipsen has set aside the two drug candidates it picked up from the 2023 acquisition of liver disease specialist Albireo, with one of the assets discontinued entirely. While the prize of the $952 ...

MUSC researchers are tackling MASH, or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, a liver disease affecting hundreds ...

As a hepatologist, Aleksander Krag has always sought to improve the prognosis of patients with liver disease, whom, he tells The Lancet, he often thinks of as a fictional patient he calls “Henry”. His ...

MASLD affects one in six people now and is projected to rise because of population growth, obesity and high blood sugar Metabolic liver disease will affect 1.8 billion people worldwide by 2050, driven ...

A routine MRI exposed a silent build-up of fat in David Cox’s organs, prompting a strict dietary reset guided by experts David Cox, PhD, is a specialist medical journalist and Cambridge neuroscientist ...

A Texas nurse has been airlifted back to the United States and is now fighting for her life in hospital as she battles a “life-threatening” illness after getting sick on her honeymoon in Japan.