Fatty liver disease happens when too much fat builds up in the liver. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a severe type of fatty liver disease where fat buildup causes liver ...

Your liver, which is the largest internal organ in your body, is responsible for a lot. It regulates blood clotting, removes toxins like alcohol from your bloodstream, helps in the production of bile ...

As a liver specialist, I spend a good deal of my time counseling people with fatty liver disease on what they can do more of (or less of) to improve their health. This is a big part of my role as the ...

Medical professionals are raising concerns about the rise in liver disease in recent years, especially among young adults. What are some of the reasons and what can we do about it? Studies are showing ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and fatty liver disease all describe conditions where too much fat builds up in the liver, ...

No doubt about it: Statins lower artery-clogging cholesterol and cut risks of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes. But are the drugs helpful if you have fatty liver disease, or can they ...

An estimated 80 to 100 million adults in the US may have fatty liver disease and are unaware of it. The liver often remains silent even when diseased, which is why diagnosis is frequently a surprise ...

(CNN) — A health condition many people have never heard of has become one of the most common liver diseases in the United States. Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, ...

It's our biggest internal organ—and technically our biggest gland, too—and yet if you stick to your recommended one drink a day or fewer for women (or two drinks a day or fewer for men), you probably ...

The cutting-edge weight-loss drug Ozempic/Wegovy can stop and even reverse fatty liver disease, a new clinical trial has found. Nearly twice as many people taking semaglutide stopped their fatty liver ...

Note: While research on alcohol is evolving, the World Health Organization says drinking less or not at all is better for your health. The liver condition metabolic dysfunction–associated ...

Dr. Makeda Dawkins, a Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Gastroenterology Fellow at Westchester Medical Center, recently shared her insights on liver health and how liver disease ...