Two years ago, Allison Grainger went to her doctor after feeling constant fatigue and nausea. A quick trip to the grocery store would exhaust her. The lethargy was so intense, the 26-year-old quit her ...

Researchers evaluated the prevalence of MAFLD in 212 children and adolescents with severe obesity (mean age, 13.2 years; 53.8% girls) recruited from four medical centres in Poland from May 2022 to ...

PITTSBURGH, June 20, 2023 — Dozens of children die each year in the U.S. while waiting for a new liver. A new analysis led by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC physician-researchers suggests that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Food insecurity has caused a surge in cases of fatty liver disease among Latino children in the United States, researchers at the ...

Rather than ask “What does the liver do,” you might ask “What doesn’t the liver do?” That’s how active the liver is, with its hundreds of vital functions that have essential impacts on all organs and ...

Pediatric liver disease is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition that differs significantly from adult liver disease in terms of causes and progression. Unlike adults, where cirrhosis and ...

For Latinx kids, unreliable access to food at age 4 raises the odds of having fatty liver disease later in childhood by nearly four times, a new UC San Francisco-led study found. About 5% to 10% of ...

Jay N. Yepuri, MD, MS, FACG, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and member of the Digestive Health Associates of Texas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. A liver function test checks how ...

Talk about an organ-ic diet. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the so-called “silent epidemic,” affects about one in four American adults. Getty Images/iStockphoto His latest roundup of healthy picks ...