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 new UK trial will screen thousands of high-risk adults for early liver disease in primary care, aiming to improve diagnosis and outcomes.
Acute-on-chronic liver failure will be treated with device that cleans patients’ blood corrupted by toxins The NHS is to trial a potentially life-saving new treatment for a deadly liver disease that ...
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.