Fatty liver disease

Long-term exposure to air pollution from traffic, even at relatively low concentrations, may increase the risk of fatty liver disease, according to a new…

A virtual clinic for liver diseases, including hepatitis, has begun treating patients. The LiverRight Hepatology Clinic offers same-week video visits to adults who…

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…