Diabetes and obesity can damage the liver to the point of failure – but few people know their risk of developing liver disease

Though a leading cause of liver transplants and an increasing number of young people being diagnosed with the disease, few people have heard of MASLD.

Madona Azar, Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School • conversation
July 22, 2024 • ~9 min

Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity

Centenarians tend to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from their sixties onwards.

Karin Modig, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet • conversation
Oct. 9, 2023 • ~6 min

How vinyl chloride, the chemical in the Ohio train derailment and used to make PVC plastics, can damage your liver

Vinyl chloride dilutes fairly quickly in outside air and water. One concern for lingering exposure from the derailment involves private wells.

Juliane I. Beier, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health, Member of Pittburgh Liver Research Center, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
Feb. 17, 2023 • ~6 min

How vinyl chloride, chemical released in the Ohio train derailment, can damage the liver – it’s used to make PVC plastics

Vinyl chloride dilutes fairly quickly in outside air and water. One concern for lingering exposure from the derailment involves private wells.

Juliane I. Beier, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
Feb. 17, 2023 • ~6 min

How vinyl chloride, the chemical in the Ohio train derailment used to make PVC plastics, can damage your liver

Vinyl chloride dilutes fairly quickly in outside air and water. One concern for lingering exposure from the derailment involves private wells.

Juliane I. Beier, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
Feb. 17, 2023 • ~6 min

Kicking off the new year by cleansing your body with a detox diet? A dietitian unpacks the science behind these fads

Detox diets and cleanses supposedly clear the body of allegedly toxic substances. But the evidence suggests otherwise.

Taylor Grasso, Registered Dietitian, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus • conversation
Jan. 18, 2023 • ~9 min

Helping the liver regenerate itself could give patients with end-stage liver disease a treatment option besides waiting for a transplant

Liver transplant waitlists can range from 30 days to over five years. Developing treatments that spur liver regeneration could help reduce demand for scarce organs.

Satdarshan Monga, Professor of Pathology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences • conversation
Oct. 14, 2022 • ~7 min

Why prescription drugs can work differently for different people

The same dose of a drug can have varying degrees of effectiveness and safety depending on how well the liver can metabolize it.

C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut • conversation
Oct. 4, 2021 • ~9 min

Genetic engineering transformed stem cells into working mini-livers that extended the life of mice with liver disease

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.

Mo Ebrahimkhani, Associate Professor of Pathology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
Dec. 7, 2020 • ~8 min

/

1