Fatty liver disease

Weight loss surgery significantly lowers the risk of serious liver complications among obese people with cirrhosis, or irreversible liver scarring and damage, due to metabolic…

Daily treatment with the investigational oral therapy lanifibranor — used alone or in combination with the diabetes medication Jardiance (empagliflozin) — led to improvements…

Biochemical crosstalk between the body’s own cells and microbes living in the intestines helps regulate the accumulation of fat in the liver, a new study…

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…