The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave De Novo clearance to Techsomed's BioTraceIO, which leverages a computational algorithm to analyze ultrasound images captured during liver ablation treatment ...

Fatty liver disease is exploding globally, affecting as many as 30% of people in Western countries. Apart from alcohol, obesity and diabetes are among the most dominant risk factors. "There is a huge ...

Each year, thousands of patients in the United States wait for a liver transplant, while transplant teams must make rapid, ...

In a time when misconceptions about liver health abound, Dr. Saurabh Sethi—a gastroenterologist trained at Harvard and Stanford—has taken to social media to debunk common myths surrounding fatty liver ...

A University of Cincinnati Cancer Center study has found that real-time navigation is a useful tool for surgeons performing ablation procedures to destroy tumors in the liver. The research, led by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new treatment could offer a potential alternative for patients who are dying from a liver disease and waiting for a transplant.

According to Greek mythology, Zeus punished Prometheus for giving fire to humans. He chained Prometheus up and set an eagle to feast on his liver. Each night, the liver grew back and each day, the ...

The current method for assessing medication-related liver injury is not providing an accurate picture of some medications' toxicity - or lack thereof - to the liver, according to a new study led by ...