100 years after the discovery of insulin, researchers report that the liver may be the key to unlocking new, preventative treatments for Type 2 diabetes.

New research upends a hypothesis about how to heal liver damage from acetaminophen. A protein once thought to help actually makes things worse.

Researchers have identified several new drug classes that could help treat a rare lethal liver cancer that mostly affects children and young adults.

Cocoa powder added to the diet of obese mice markedly reduced the severity of liver disease. Researchers suggest the findings have implications for people.

Added sugar—in soda, for instance—doubles fat production in the liver and could put you on a path towards fatty liver disease or diabetes as a result.

Added sugar—in soda, for instance—doubles fat production in the liver and could put you on a path towards fatty liver disease or diabetes as a result.

Scientists have used a technique to grow bile duct organoids – often referred to as ‘mini-organs’ – in the lab and shown that these can be used to repair

New strategy helps build synthetic organs from scratch. This enabled the researchers to grow functioning liver tissue in the lab that could be transplanted into mice with liver disease.

Researchers have found that COVID-19 patients in the US have a far higher rate of abnormal liver tests than studies showed for patients in China.

"Many commonly used drugs such as ibuprofen are being overused and should not be used for certain conditions such as mild pain."