Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) significantly increases the risk of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. While fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) analogs have shown ...

No doubt 2025 will usher in many more advances in CRISPR therapies, thanks to the FDA’s new Platform Technology Designation ...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the ...

Government of India has provided tax relief on life-saving drugs and medicines used for rare diseases. As per the Ministry of Finance’s response in Rajya Sabha on February 11, 2025, basic customs duty ...

Discover a potential breakthrough in treating severe liver scarring with a safe and effective therapy, as revealed by a recent Cleveland Clinic-led study.

A medical director of liver transplants in Colorado says he has noticed a worrying rise in the number of young people in ...

The management of Leishmania donova ni (LD), responsible for fatal visceral leishmaniasis (VL), faces increasing challenges due to rising drug-unresponsiveness, leading to increasing treatment ...

What Is an Inflamed Liver? Inflammation is the body's way to heal an injury or damaged cells. In the liver, this injury can be caused by many things, including an infection, toxins, or the buildup ...

Unlike some of the other conditions associated with granulomas, there is no specific diagnostic test for sarcoidosis. An elevated serum ACE is supportive but non-specific and there are cases diagnosed ...

Many endovascular devices contain plastic and are coated with a hydrophilic polymer which has been rarely described to embolize, resulting in distal granulomatous inflammatory lesions within the ...

The liver has a very important role in detoxifying the body, processing nutrients, and eliminating harmful substances. According to a study done in 2023, globally every year nealy 2 million people ...

What Does Liver Pain Feel Like? Your liver is a football-sized organ that sits under your ribs. It filters and cleans your blood, stockpiles energy, helps you fight infections and diseases ...