• Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 25th, 2015
16-Year-Old Girl Gets Hepatitis from Drinking Too Much Green Tea

16-Year-Old Girl Gets Hepatitis from Drinking Too Much Green Tea

She drank the tea because she wanted to lose weight

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 15th, 2015
Sit Too Much and Odds Are You'll Get Liver Disease

Sit Too Much and Odds Are You'll Get Liver Disease

Study finds evidence sitting too much affects the liver

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • August 17th, 2015
Researchers Build Bionic Livers to Test Drug Toxicity

Researchers Build Bionic Livers to Test Drug Toxicity

Such science-made organs are intended to replace lab animals

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 20th, 2015
Scientists Develop Artificial Liver Made from Pig Cells

Scientists Develop Artificial Liver Made from Pig Cells

The artificial liver is an alternative to transplantation

Man Insists He's Turning Black Following Liver Transplant Surgery

Man Insists He's Turning Black Following Liver Transplant Surgery

It's because he got an African-American liver, he says

Liver Cirrhosis Affects 633,000 Adults in the US Annually

Liver Cirrhosis Affects 633,000 Adults in the US Annually

What's worrying is that, of the people to develop liver cirrhosis, 69% probably don't even know they have this problem

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • November 15th, 2014
Coffee Can Help Overweight and Obese Individuals Stay Healthy

Coffee Can Help Overweight and Obese Individuals Stay Healthy

Study finds compound in coffee can stave off some of the damaging effects of being overweight or obese

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 25th, 2014
How Your Tonsils Could Repair Your Damaged Liver

How Your Tonsils Could Repair Your Damaged Liver

Scientists say it might be possible to use stem cells derived from tonsils to repair damaged livers, no surgery needed

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 1st, 2014
Heavy Drinking Found to Damage the Lungs

Heavy Drinking Found to Damage the Lungs

The liver is not the only organ affected by one too many sips of wine

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • June 30th, 2014
Livers Kept Viable Outside the Body for Several Days in a Row

Livers Kept Viable Outside the Body for Several Days in a Row

New supercooling technique promises to boost the popularity of organ transplant surgeries

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • June 5th, 2014
Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Cancer Risk, Study Finds

Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Cancer Risk, Study Finds

Bariatric surgery patients have cancer rates similar to those of normal weight people

Weight-Loss Surgery Found to Benefit the Liver

Weight-Loss Surgery Found to Benefit the Liver

Bariatric surgery reduces liver inflammation, reverses early-stage fibrosis

Key Part of Hepatitis C Virus Imaged in Great Detail

Key Part of Hepatitis C Virus Imaged in Great Detail

Knowing its structure could help experts develop a vaccine

3D Printed Human Liver Lives for 40 Days – Video

3D Printed Human Liver Lives for 40 Days – Video

There's huge potential for 3D printed and artificially grown human tissue

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • October 16th, 2013
Some People’s Liver “Eats” Their Brain, New Evidence Suggests

Some People’s Liver “Eats” Their Brain, New Evidence Suggests

Researchers suspect this ups memory loss and dementia risk

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • April 27th, 2013
Conjoined Twins Separated in Groundbreaking Surgery

Conjoined Twins Separated in Groundbreaking Surgery

6-month-old A'zhari and A'zhiah are now in stable condition, doctors say

  • Health
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • April 26th, 2013
Liver Hormone Might Render Insulin Injections Obsolete

Liver Hormone Might Render Insulin Injections Obsolete

Experiments on mice suggest betatrophin could revolutionize type 2 diabetes treatment

 
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