The tissue grafts have the potential to help thousands of Americans on transplant waitlists—amid a shortage of donor livers.

Ernest House needed a liver transplant. But a heart condition was keeping him off the transplant list. “I would have died,” he says. “There's no doubt about that. My body was failing.” A former ...

More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant, but there are not ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Right now, patients with obesity and cirrhosis ...

A study conducted at City of Hope, a cancer research organization based in Duarte, Calif., found that robotic liver surgery can be safely conducted as an outpatient procedure. The study analyzed data ...

Recent medical research has uncovered a significant connection between obesity and liver health, with excess weight being a primary contributor to various liver conditions. This relationship has led ...

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver ...

If a man’s liver stops working, he soon lapses into a deep coma and usually dies within a few weeks. Drugs offer little help, and transplants are all but hopeless. Even if the rejection mechanism ...

The long-term stasis of blood in the liver, known as chronic liver congestion, can lead to a range of diseases, some of which ...

Dr Fahad Afzal, consultant oncologist at Saifee Hospital, adds, “Liver cysts may sometimes be detected during follow-up scans ...