A new global report suggests we need to take liver health more seriously.

A review included more than 600,000 people to highlight that what we eat—not just what we drink—impacts liver health.

Scientists found that fatty liver disease in people with type 1 diabetes may indicate wider metabolic dysfunction including ...

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

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

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

Your GI tract houses trillions (yes, with a T) of microbes: bacteria, viruses, fungi, and more. The swarm of microscopic critters living in your intestines makes up the gut microbiome and influences ...

Liver disease includes any condition that damages your liver. Over time, scar tissue can build up in your liver. Scarring or fibrosis can progress over many years until you develop cirrhosis—the most ...

Rebecca Kim, MD, assistant professor in the division of gastroenterology at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, received a K23 career development grant to study how social ...

Fatty liver disease (also called steatotic liver disease) happens when too much fat builds up in your liver. It can be caused by high alcohol use or metabolic syndrome (a group of conditions like ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a previously unknown biological process ...

Your liver is one of the most patient organs in your body, quietly handling hundreds of essential functions while rarely complaining about the abuse you put it through. But this stoic nature works ...