Gallbladder cancer is most common in people who have gallstones or have had gallstones in the past. While uncommon, most gallbladder cancers are discovered at a late stage when the prognosis is often poor and liver resection ...
Jul 24, 2023
0
0
Cancer cases are unusually high among middle aged people in the Middle East contrary to western countries where they usually hit people at least 20 years later.
Jul 21, 2023
0
6
The Mona Lisa, painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, is one of the most recognizable paintings in the world. But many people would be surprised to learn that this painting offers the first evidence of a disease ...
Jul 20, 2023
0
7
New insights into the underlying mechanisms of type 2 diabetes and novel potential therapeutic targets for the disease were revealed in a recent study by a team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists in the Department ...
Jul 20, 2023
0
1
A new study in Gastroenterology identifies how certain proteins in the immune system interact and lead to organ rejection. The study, which involved experiments on mice and human patients, uncovered an important communication ...
Jul 19, 2023
0
19
Excessive drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic increased alcoholic liver disease deaths so much that the condition killed more Californians than car accidents or breast cancer, a KFF Health News analysis has found.
Jul 19, 2023
0
27
Research conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil shows that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can infect liver cells (hepatocytes), stimulating glucose production and leading to a condition similar ...
Jul 19, 2023
0
73
Long-running research by Duke-NUS Medical School into the omega-3 transporter protein Mfsd2a has shown that it plays a key role in a specific mechanism that prevents the liver from storing too much fat from food. Published ...
Jul 19, 2023
0
2
A surgical team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently performed the first robotic liver transplant in the U.S. The successful transplant, accomplished in May at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, extends ...
Jul 17, 2023
0
1
A research team from the Department of Medicine III at MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna has conducted a large-scale study showing the important value of repeated liver assessments by a novel method that can significantly ...
Jul 17, 2023
0
6
