Fatty liver disease

A molecular system controlled by a protein called FBP1 is responsible for how liver cells damaged by MASH — fully, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, a severe…

An international team of researchers using different experimental approaches identified two distinct types of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a form of fatty…

Troubled sleep is more common in people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a type of fatty liver disease, than in age-matched adults…

Almost every child and adolescent who met diagnostic criteria for forms of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease under their previous names — NAFL, NASH, or…

Weekly injections of semaglutide, a medication sold in the U.S. under brand names including Ozempic and Wegovy to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, reduced…

About 45% of teens and adults in the U.S. have some form of fatty liver disease, with Hispanic populations being more affected than other…

Sagimet Biosciences is planning the launch of two Phase 3 clinical trials to test its oral therapy candidate denifanstat in people with fatty…

A Phase 3 clinical trial testing Rezdiffra (resmetirom) in people with well-compensated cirrhosis, or irreversible liver scarring that still allows the liver to work, due…

Suppressing the production of the SPTBN1 protein reduces liver fat, inflammation, and scarring (fibrosis) in mouse and human models of two forms of fatty…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough therapy status to survodutide, an experimental injectable therapy by Boehringer Ingelheim for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis…