The largest liver study in the history of the NHS has launched this week, aiming to detect liver disease at an early stage so treatment can begin before it progresses to cirrhosis. Around 70% of ...

A pioneering new liver cancer treatment, employing focused ultrasound waves to destroy diseased tissue, has been administered to the first NHS patient. Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is the first ...

A new ultrasound-based treatment that destroys liver cancer tumours without surgery or radiation will be offered to NHS patients this summer in a European first. The therapy, called histotripsy, is a ...

In a recent study published in the journal BMC Medicine, researchers compared the rate of new diagnoses among United Kingdom Biobank (UKBB) individuals who received the National Health Service (NHS) ...

A doctor has highlighted the four most common warning signs of liver cancer – a disease many people detect too late. January is Love Your Liver awareness month, a time when we are encouraged to assess ...

Researchers from Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) in Spain have identified an effective strategy to reduce structural liver damage and improve hepatic vascular function in cirrhosis. The ...

Using human liver samples and a mouse model of cirrhosis, researchers identified epigenetic overactivation of the inflammatory PAF–PAF-R pathway in hepatic macrophages as a key driver of liver damage.