UAB surgeons have completed Alabama’s first living-donor liver transplant, expanding lifesaving options for patients facing ...

Ernest House needed a liver transplant. But a heart condition was keeping him off the transplant list. “I would have died,” he says. “There's no doubt about that. My body was failing.” A former ...

Resection of tumors in the caudate lobe (a deep, hard-to-reach part of the liver) is recognized as one of the most ...

A study conducted at City of Hope, a cancer research organization based in Duarte, Calif., found that robotic liver surgery can be safely conducted as an outpatient procedure. The study analyzed data ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Right now, patients with obesity and cirrhosis ...

The complex procedure, carried out at Gleneagles Hospital in Parel, used a single liver from a 38-year-old brain-dead donor ...

A patient in China with hepatocellular carcinoma survived 171 days following xenotransplantation with a genetically modified ...

Recent medical research has uncovered a significant connection between obesity and liver health, with excess weight being a primary contributor to various liver conditions. This relationship has led ...

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver ...

Baby Hazel has received a liver transplant after a long wait, and her father says she's smiling, laughing, and playing as she continues to recover at UPMC in Pittsburgh.

If a man’s liver stops working, he soon lapses into a deep coma and usually dies within a few weeks. Drugs offer little help, and transplants are all but hopeless. Even if the rejection mechanism ...