A form of MRI technology can quantify liver response in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, according to recent research by the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Here’s ...

My oldest sister, Georgia, was my hero. As a young boy in a rough and tumble Pittsburgh neighborhood, I wished I had a big brother to help me navigate safely and develop the kinds of skills needed to ...

To measure scarring in a patient’s liver with magnet resonance imaging, a vibrator is affixed above the liver. The vibrator causes compression waves in the liver, which can be observed in the images.

The liver plays a central role in storing and supplying energy to the body. In type 2 diabetes and metabolic ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is among the most prevalent chronic liver disorders worldwide and can sometimes lead to severe conditions like cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. As such ...

Exercise training is 3.5 times more likely to result in a clinically meaningful response in liver fat, compared with standard clinical care, for patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), ...

A: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, is quite common in the U.S. Around 25 percent of adults have NAFLD — and about 20 percent of those folks have a more advanced stage called NASH ...