By promoting awareness, encouraging preventive practices, and ensuring access to essential healthcare services, the DOH aims to reduce the burden of liver diseases and improve the overall well-being ...

Recent research suggests that a new approach could help even patients with advanced forms of fatty liver disease.

Explore how the liver functions, common liver conditions, and tips to maintain liver health through lifestyle changes like ...

The viral illness kills more people in the city than HIV, but antiviral medications may be helping cut its transmission.

Having peers facilitate virtual visits may lead to many more patients with hepatitis C receiving treatment and clearing the ...

The only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, ...

"Bariatric surgery was associated with a 72% lower risk of developing serious complications of liver disease and an 80% lower risk of progression to decompensated stage among patients with ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are the two most common causes of chronic liver disease in North America. NAFLD represents a spectrum of liver lesions that ...

autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, alcoholic/non-alcoholic liver diseases; and (5) coexisting conditions, or severe metabolic imbalance or psychiatric disorders. This research was ...

liver diseases—which include hepatitis B, hepatitis C, fatty liver disease, alcohol-associated liver disease, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma—accounted for 27.3 cases per 1000 ...

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). In the United States, it is the most common blood-borne infection, impacting around 2.4 million Americans, or ...

Patients with hepatitis D have an increased risk for liver-related complications and mortality. Patients with HIV and hepatitis B coinfection are at an increased risk for hepatitis D, which is ...