The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of sound waves to break down tumors—a technique called histotripsy—in humans for liver treatment.
Liver fibrosis is associated with various liver injuries, including viral infection, inflammation, excess alcohol consumption, and metabolic dysfunction.
As one of just six sites in the country chosen for a new consortium of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Brownsville will use multi-omics in combination with environmental, epidemiologic, and clinical data, along with social determinants of health, to study non-alcoholic and non-viral liver disease in Hispanics/Latinos.
A study reveals genetic subtypes, biomarkers, gene and pathway targets for the development of new treatments for this liver disease
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Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that certain nano-based cancer therapies may be less effective in younger patients, highlighting the need for further investigation into the impact of aging on the body’s ability to respond to treatment.
La cirrosis a menudo es consecuencia del consumo de alcohol crónico a largo plazo. Sin embargo, algunas personas que consumen poco o nada de alcohol pueden presentar cirrosis.
A cirroseé geralmente associada ao consumo prolongado e excessivo de álcool. No entanto, algumas pessoas que consomem pouco ou nenhum álcool podem acabar desenvolvendo a doença.
Close relatives of people with metabolic-associated fatty liver disease have a higher risk of developing liver cancer and dying from liver-related diseases, according to a national study from Karolinska Institute in Sweden published in The Journal of Hepatology.
Research updates in gastroenterology and hepatology from the September issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology, the flagship journal of the American College of Gastroenterology.
Race and ethnicity may play a role in liver cancer, which disproportionately affects people of low socioeconomic status, as well as immigrants, veterans and incarcerated populations.
The zebrafish is one of the most powerful biomedical research tools in use today. Children's Hospital Los Angeles is using them to better understand what causes pediatric cancer.
Gene therapy with microRNA-22 produced better survival outcomes than the current FDA-approved drug for liver cancer and without noticeable toxicity in new mouse study.
$9 million grant awarded to researchers with UC San Diego School of Medicine supports new study of semaglutide for liver disease.
In a breakthrough in liver transplantation that may lead to the ability to connect more living donors and patients, a new matching system designed by a team led by Boston College economists enabled the world’s first four-way liver exchange and a cascade of additional matches.
A $3 million, five-year award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the NIH aims to discover and validate the gene Х heavy metal (GXM) interactions in human livers and to understand their role in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
La inteligencia artificial (IA) está capturando la imaginación del público a medida que el ritmo de la innovación se acelera considerablemente y las herramientas de IA fáciles de usar ofrecen nuevas posibilidades para transformar industrias enteras.
The Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday the approval of HEPZATO Kit to treat ocular melanoma that has spread to the liver. HEPZATO uses a hepatic delivery system to inject the chemotherapy drug melphalan into the liver, a procedure referred to as percutaneous hepatic perfusion (PHP). Moffitt Cancer Center’s Jonathan S. Zager, M.D., was the lead international principal investigator on the multinational FOCUS phase 3 clinical trial to test the procedure, which is manufactured by Delcath Systems, Inc.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is capturing the public imagination as the pace of innovation accelerates sharply and easy-to-use AI tools offer new possibilities to transform whole industries.
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