The liver is a large internal organ that is under your right ribs just beneath your right lung. It has two lobes (sections). The liver is made up mainly of cells called hepatocytes. It also has other ...

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What Is an Inflamed Liver? Inflammation is the body's way to heal an injury or damaged cells. In the liver, this injury can be caused by many things, including an infection, toxins, or the buildup ...

Cirrhosis is a condition in which scar tissue gradually replaces your healthy liver cells. It usually happens over a long period, often due to hepatitis, alcohol use disorder, or metabolic ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — The research found that heavy drinkers with either diabetes, high blood pressure or a high waist circumference are as much as 2.4 times more likely to develop advanced liver ...

April 19, 2022: Jamie Lo, MD, MCR, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, OHSU School of Medicine / Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences, ONPRC Kim Ryan, MD, Resident Physician ...

Face of possum, tooth of mouse, ear of bat—it’s not a line from Macbeth, but it just might describe the world’s weirdest primate. Meet the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a lemur so singular ...

Liver diseases are any diseases that affect the functioning of the liver. Liver diseases can be inherited (such as Wilson disease and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency) or acquired (for example ...

The American Cancer Society’s estimates for primary liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer in the United States for 2025 are: About 42,240 new cases (28,220 in men and 14,020 in women) will be ...

A portion of liver tissue (left lateral liver lobe) obtained from each group was placed in 4% paraformaldehyde for more than 24 h, dehydrated, and embedded in paraffin wax. Next, the liver tissues ...

Akero Therapeutics reported Monday strong results from a nearly two-year, placebo-controlled study showing its drug efruxifermin reversed liver scarring in patients with cirrhosis caused by the ...