Your liver silently performs hundreds of essential functions daily, from filtering toxins to supporting digestion and metabolism. Yet this resilient organ faces a formidable adversary in alcohol. The ...

Cirrhosis of the liver is a chronic and progressive disease in which healthy liver cells are slowly replaced by scar tissue, severely impairing vital liver functions such as detoxification, hormone ...

A new study from Australian researchers has found that a special type of blood test can accurately detect alcohol use in people who have liver disease. This test works much better than older tests or ...

Alcohol doesn’t just damage the liver — it locks its cells in a strange “in-between” state that prevents them from healing. Even after someone quits drinking, liver cells often get stuck, unable to ...

Dear R.C.: With abnormal liver tests and your liver sonogram, I would be concerned that you had metabolic-associated ...

The liver is a vital organ which performs hundreds of functions necessary to sustain life. It primarily filters toxins from the blood, produces bile juice for digestion, stores essential vitamins and ...

The intelligent Liver Function Testing (iLFT) platform can improve diagnosis and management of chronic liver disease in a primary care setting, new data show. At the European Association for the Study ...