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Health Canada has conditionally approved Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) to treat metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a severe form of fatty liver disease. The…

Livmarli (maralixibat) and Bylvay (odevixibat) not only offer significant relief from severe itching in children with Alagille syndrome, but also improve quality…

Researchers in the U.S. have developed a rapid point-of-care test that detects active hepatitis C infection by identifying HCV RNA, with results available in…

Galangin, a naturally occurring compound found in honey and certain plants, was shown to reduce inflammation and liver injury in a mouse model of…

About half of children with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) were found to have cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM), a form of heart disease, in a…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the use of the first artificial intelligence (AI) drug-development tool for use in clinical trials of metabolic…

Using a minimally invasive method called laparoscopy to conduct standard Kasai surgery significantly reduces blood loss and increases the chances of jaundice clearance compared with…

Major medical associations and state health departments are moving to maintain the standard of universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth, diverging from a recent…

The frequency of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) in people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is lower in Asian countries than in the West, according…

Infection with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a common and usually harmless virus, may play a role in the development of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP),…