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Measuring blood levels of bile acids, a component of bile, and the gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) enzyme may aid newborn cholestasis diagnosis by distinguishing between…

Poor sleep quality — noted by researchers as increasingly common in modern society — is significantly linked to a higher chance of having metabolic dysfunction-associated…

The use of dupilumab, an approved anti-inflammatory antibody-based treatment, worked to ease itching, known medically as pruritus, in a young woman with Alagille syndrome…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a label expansion for Livmarli (maralixibat) that allows the medication to be used in patients with…

World Hepatitis Day, marked annually on July 28, seeks to raise awareness and help efforts to end viral hepatitis, a condition marked by liver…

NGM Biopharmaceuticals has raised $122 million in financing, which the California-based company will use to help launch a planned registrational clinical trial to test…

Blood levels of certain fatty molecules, called short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), in pregnant women may help diagnose intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), according to…

The American Liver Foundation (ALF) has launched two projects that aim to improve care for people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)…

Levels of Bifidobacterium longum (B. longum), a well-known probiotic, in the gut are significantly reduced in children with biliary atresia, a study in Taiwan…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has prequalified the first self-test kit to detect the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a home setting, marking…