It works nonstop to filter toxins, fuel your energy, and store nutrients. Here’s how to give it the care it deserves.

Cirrhosis of the liver is a chronic and progressive disease in which healthy liver cells are slowly replaced by scar tissue, severely impairing vital liver functions such as detoxification, hormone ...

Doctors can diagnose fatty liver disease, now called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), using blood tests that measure serum liver enzyme levels. Elevated enzyme levels ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first ...

A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a ...

This guide is designed to help you understand liver cancer and equip you with the right questions to ask your medical team. Getting a cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming and frightening. This guide ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...