An at-home liver test can check for liver disease or help monitor an ongoing condition by measuring certain proteins, enzymes, and bilirubin in your blood. Taking this test can help shed light on the ...

Siemens is launching its Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF) diagnostic in the U.S. this week to help test patients with chronic liver disease. This new testing service comes out of the Siemens Healthcare ...

Cirrhosis and liver cancer often develop quietly. The new CORE (Cirrhosis Outcome Risk Estimator) model uses age and three ...

Routine blood tests are increasingly detecting elevated liver enzymes, which may signal liver stress or damage. While mild ...

A blood test looking for five specific proteins can predict metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, more commonly known as fatty liver disease, researchers are scheduled to report at ...

The AI model analyzes data from routine electrocardiograms (ECGs) at Mayo Clinic. It identifies patterns linked to advanced ...

Though it is predicted to become a top cause of organ damage and liver transplants within this decade, treatments for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, have stalled for a simple reason: It ...

A liver ultrasound is a noninvasive test that produces images of a person’s liver and its blood vessels. A liver ultrasound can help diagnose various conditions that affect the liver, such as fatty ...

Q: I recently had some blood tests performed and my doctor told me that my liver tests were abnormal. He said that running might have caused these results. I rarely drink alcohol, and I’m in good ...

As rates of obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea increase, cases of advanced chronic liver disease ...

A lab-grown liver stand-in may better predict bad responses to drugs than animal testing does. A human “liver chip” — liver cells grown on a membrane along with several types of supporting cells — ...

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