The popularity of noninvasive options to diagnose liver disease has been growing, but are there times when more traditional methods like liver biopsy are still needed for a precise diagnosis? Medical ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has multiple genotypes of which genotype 1 is the most common in the United States. Cirrhosis does not develop in all patients infected with HCV. Elevated serum ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In today’s Health Headlines, October is Liver Awareness Month – how a biopsy helps diagnose liver diseases, why fatty liver disease is now on the rise, and how it can ...

Novel biomarker tests have met or exceeded the performance of common lab tests for diagnosing nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH, now known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis or MASH) ...

Endoscopy can be used along with other tests to confirm a diagnosis of cirrhosis and help a doctor decide what treatments might be best. An endoscopy is done by inserting a thin, lighted tube with a ...

At the annual Liver Meeting sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), AASLD President Grace L. Su, MD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, highlighted ...