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A targeted treatment called transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) successfully helped control hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, in a young woman with…

Note: This story was updated Aug. 8, 2025, to correct that infectious mononucleosis was linked to a 4.6 times higher risk of future PSC, not  a…

A combination of two mutations in the MYO5B gene, including one that has not been previously reported, was the likely cause of a mild form…

Daily treatment with the diabetes medication dapagliflozin eased disease severity for people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a severe form of fatty liver disease,…

Combining the levels of two liver damage markers, obtained from standard blood tests, can accurately discriminate infants with biliary atresia from those without the…

Astrivax Therapeutics has begun clinical testing of AVX70371, an experimental vaccine designed to treat hepatitis B. “Starting clinical development with AVX70371 is the first…

A Phase 1b/2a clinical trial of golexanolone, Umecrine Cognition’s candidate therapy for cognitive symptoms and fatigue related to primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), will resume…

Women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), the most common liver complication during pregnancy, are significantly more likely to have reduced blood levels of…

An international team of scientists called for more efforts to diagnose metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a severe form of fatty liver disease, arguing that…

The use of an experimental, one-time gene therapy in a mouse model of Alagille syndrome increased the number of bile ducts — tubes that…