Each has different causes, with one commonality: Hepatitis causes your liver to get inflamed. Hepatitis disease can also sometimes be spread through sexual contact. Here’s what you need to know ...

There are three stages of the disease: It starts as alcohol-related fatty liver disease, progresses to alcohol-related hepatitis (also called alcoholic hepatitis), and can turn into irreversible ...

Chronic liver diseases, hepatitis, and alcohol use can cause cirrhosis. Without treatment, cirrhosis leads to liver failure. Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD ...

For patients with chronic viral hepatitis, clinicians instinctively rely on liver enzyme measurements to estimate disease activity and assess need for liver biopsy or antiviral treatment.

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ...