Using high doses of opioid pain killers while waiting for a liver transplant can increase the risk of death and organ loss after the transplant, showed a study published in the journal Liver Transplantation.
Articles by Özge Özkaya, PhD
Conducting too many liver tests in one go may cause unnecessary worry, biopsies and costs, according to scientists at the University of Michigan.
A team of international researchers described a process by which the liver is able to burn up fats that accumulate as a result of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes. Based on this finding, the researchers developed a cocktail of substances that could trigger this process in the liver.
A team of international researchers identified the genetic cause of a very rare disease seen so far only in a single family living in a remote region of Pakistan.