Weight gain is not solely about how you look, it changes how your body functions too. Liver is one of the first organs to ...

Liver transplant surgery involves replacing an unhealthy liver with a healthy one from a living or deceased donor. Recovery can take up to 1 year, and 5-year survival rates can be as high as 75%. A ...

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 ...

If you’ve received a liver cancer diagnosis, your treatment options depend on several factors. Surgery is sometimes but not always the best treatment option. Your doctor will stage your cancer ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — For individuals with both metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and obesity, bariatric surgery can prevent liver disease progression to the point where ...

Utah mom gets a liver transplant from her son in a first-of-its-kind surgery at Intermountain Medical Center Murray • A Utah mom is hepatitis-free for the first time in 27 years, thanks to a live ...

Robotic-assisted liver surgery has the potential to cut down your recovery time from three months to just a week. The procedure is a new option available for people with liver conditions requiring ...

The Liver Transplant Surgery Fellowship is a rigorous two-year training program approved by the Texas State Medical Board and part of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons to accept one fellow ...