Tag: liver

Mother gives birth to conjoined twins who share a heart and liver – but doctors say they won’t separate the girls because one would die Jennifer Pamela Martinez, 27, had not heard of the condition before it happened Her babies, Maria Jose and Maria Fernandez, are being kept alive in hospital Ms Martinez, from Honduras,

Research by physician-scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus offers hope for improved quality of life for people who rely on intravenous nutrition due to intestinal damage. Karim C. El Kasmi, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, and Ronald Sokol, MD, professor of pediatrics, are authors of an article in the April 2018

Scientists have developed a lab-based system for studying the most common type of liver disease, paving the way for research into new therapies. The team has devised a way to probe Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, which affects up to one in three people, using cells in a dish. Researchers will be able to use the

New research charts vitamin D levels and variations in genes that determine vitamin D status in UK children diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. A team of scientists has examined the vitamin D levels in children with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease over a 12 month period. The study found the majority of children in the

An international research team has today reported the first results of a study investigating the natural history of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC)—a rare genetic liver disease that predominantly affects children. Most alarmingly, the team reported that, by the age of 10 years, approximately half of the children with two different forms of PFIC had

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) waiting for a liver transplant in the USA are now significantly less likely to receive a new liver than they were around a decade ago. A nationwide study presented today at The International Liver Congress 2018 in Paris, France, has confirmed that patients with HCC on the liver transplant list

Liver stem cells that express high levels of telomerase, a protein often associated with resistance to aging, act in mice to regenerate the organ during normal cellular turnover or tissue damage, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The cells are distributed throughout the liver’s lobes, enabling it to