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A one-hour point-of-care test for hepatitis C has been cleared for use in Canada, which could help accelerate diagnosis and monitor how people with…

A blood marker of inflammation called lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) is an independent predictor of liver recompensation — when liver function improves with treatment despite permanent…

Problems in mitochondria, the cell’s powerhouses, may contribute to liver damage associated with cholestasis and represent a potential therapeutic target, a study showed. Deteriorating…

Regulators in the European Union (EU) have granted conditional approval to Rezdiffra (resmetirom) for some people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), making it the first…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conditionally approved Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) to treat certain people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a…

Current approaches to hepatitis B care across the globe are failing to adequately connect patients with treatment, and also to retain them for long-term…

Chemomab Therapeutics has aligned with U.S. regulators on several aspects of the late-stage development of nebokitug, its candidate therapy for primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC),…

High maternal levels of liver damage markers in the blood can predict poor fetal outcomes in twin pregnancies affected by intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy…

India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization has approved the oral therapy nor-ursodeoxycholic acid (NorUDCA) for people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a form…

People with Alagille syndrome display different disease characteristics depending on whether the disease-causing mutation is located in the JAG1 gene or the NOTCH2 gene,…