Research conducted by a local hospital has found that hepatitis B patients with a simple fatty liver have a lower mortality risk than those without, suggesting that excessive fat in the liver could ...

St. David’s Medical Center in Austin is the first hospital in Central Texas to offer histotripsy, a noninvasive ultrasound ...

The liver is a large internal organ that is under your right ribs just beneath your right lung. It has two lobes (sections). The liver is made up mainly of cells called hepatocytes. It also has other ...

In the US and Europe, a common way to determine who should receive treatment is via testing for fibrosis, the stiffening of the liver which many hep C patients develop, although this can take ...

More than 30,000 people have already benefited from new drugs to treat hepatitis C and the death rate from related liver diseases has already fallen by more than 16% between 2015 and 2017.

Blood tests are a routine part of your prenatal care. Here's everything you need to know about what you can expect.

With several drugs in use that inhibit the hepatitis B virus polymerases (nucleos(t)ide analogues (or NUCs)), some argue that new direct-acting antiviral drugs, and new NUCs in particular ...

The American Cancer Society’s estimates for primary liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer in the United States for 2025 are: About 42,240 new cases (28,220 in men and 14,020 in women) will be ...

There is a strong suggestion that HCC is a disease which will be seen more frequently over the next few years, mainly as a result of the hepatitis C virus (HCV ... proportion of HCC presents as ...

The funds will accelerate clinical research and commercial production of the company's flagship product, HepaCure, and advance its pipeline of liver disease candidates. Established in 2015, the firm ...

Progress continues to be made on completing fundraising for the ultrasound units at Sensenbrenner Hospital in Kapuskasing. Foundation project manager Mireille Dubosq shares some good news regarding a ...