UC San Diego leads a $25.8 million ARPA-H funded project to 3D bioprint patient-specific human livers, aiming to eliminate organ shortages.

Jay N. Yepuri, MD, MS, FACG, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and member of the Digestive Health Associates of Texas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Liver fibrosis is scarring that ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: What can you tell me about the cause and treatment of immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP)? I am a 71-year-old male, and after lab results showed a low blood platelet count, I ...

Now, before I get into it, I will preface this review by saying my liver was fine to begin with. And if my liver were to give me issues, I would go to a doctor (as you should too!) before ever turning ...

More than 1,200 liver scans have been completed as part of a pop-up health clinic scheme aiming to make the checks more accessible. The tests have taken place in community centres, businesses and ...

A health condition many people have never heard of has become one of the most common liver diseases in the United States. Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, often ...

Scientists have uncovered a new environmental culprit behind liver disease: tetrachloroethylene (PCE), a chemical used in dry cleaning and household products. The study found that people with PCE ...

A health insurance dispute is preventing a North Carolina man from getting a cancer drug his doctors say is necessary. The prognosis for John Middleton isn’t good. The 43-year-old engineer from ...

Did Hillsborough actually overspend by $279 million, as DOGE claims? Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes Warren Buffett suggests all parents do one thing before ...

Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go. By J. D. Biersdorfer I write the monthly Tech Tip column, which is devoted to ...

The liver came from a genetically modified cloned pig with ten gene edits. Pexels For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ ...

Drinking as little as one can of diet soda a day may increase the risk of nonalcohol fatty liver disease by 60%, while drinking a sugary beverage could raise the risk by 50%, a new unpublished study ...