Recent studies suggest that modifiable risk factors such as cigarette smoking and fructose consumption can worsen nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). With NAFLD, fat accumulates in the liver of overweight individuals despite drinking little alcohol, causing in some cases liver scarring...
Recent studies suggest that modifiable risk factors such as cigarette smoking and fructose consumption can worsen nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). With NAFLD, fat accumulates in the liver of overweight individuals despite drinking little alcohol, causing in some cases liver scarring...
Recent studies suggest that modifiable risk factors such as cigarette smoking and fructose consumption can worsen nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). With NAFLD, fat accumulates in the liver of overweight individuals despite drinking little alcohol, causing in some cases liver scarring...
Doctors could soon be prescribing a dose of dark chocolate to help patients suffering from liver cirrhosis and from dangerously high blood pressure in their abdomen, according to new research presented at the International Liver CongressTM 2010, the Annual Meeting of the European Association for...
Two major transplant centers in Hong Kong and South Korea released results from their paired donor exchange programs for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). A single paired exchange, performed by the Hong Kong team under emergency circumstances, was a success. The Korean team reported 16...
The frequency of post-operative complications following surgery for liver cancer is associated with a hospital having a low volume of liver surgery. Investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) are presenting that finding at the 63rd Annual Society of Surgical Oncology Symposium...
What if you accepted it but then, after a few months, you noticed yourself beginning to be more skeptical about the things without evidence you believed were true for your whole life? Would you demand the doctors take the liver out? And if you think this is silly, there have been studies carried...
Life-Saving Therapeutic Interventions Possible with Early Detection of Hepatitis C Recurrence A recent study by doctors from the Hospital ClÃ*nic in Barcelona, Spain determined that repeated liver stiffness measurements (LSM) in the first year following liver transplant (LT) could discriminate...
Liver cancer begins in the cells of the liver. The liver is a football-sized organ that sits in the upper right portion of the abdomen. The liver carries out many vital functions, such as digesting proteins and fats, removing toxins from the body, producing chemicals that stop blood clotting...
i have back pain, significant back pain and for whatever reason my dr is constantly ordering monthly liver function panel tests, is he doing this to check to see if im using too much vicodin, because if you take more than 4000mg daily of vicodin can cause liver damage due to the apap, im curious...
we all know that liver is purifying our bodies from toxins ..,in the same time it's a good source for menirals as food ..
our doctor think that it's not halthy to eat liver even if it's well cooked !! so my qustion is should we stop eatng liver ???!!
my liver nction test came back at 476. (normal 35). doc says it may be due to a medication I was on and to stop it and see him in 3 weeks. im worried. who has had liver problems and did you take a liver tonic, liver cleansing diet or anything else?
thanks any info appreciated