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.
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.