An 11-year-old girl in Fort Collins successfully became the 37th child in U.S. history to undergo a liver and heart transplant at one time. Gracie Greenlaw is now home and thriving after receiving the ...

Many biological processes exhibit daytime differences governed by rhythmic exposure to sunlight, termed circadian rhythms. Researchers at Penn State recently found, in mice, that a protein critical to ...

This story was originally published by The Allegheny Front, a public radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania. Listen to the radio version of the piece below. February 3, ...

A serious but often missed sign is confusion or trouble thinking clearly. This is called hepatic encephalopathy. It happens when the liver can’t remove toxins from the blood, and those toxins reach ...

Hundreds of people reported symptoms including headaches, coughs and respiratory issues in the following weeks.

A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty foods can push liver cells into a survival mode that quietly raises the risk of ...

The liver’s unique ability to regenerate enables living donor transplantation, where a healthy person can donate up to 70 percent of their liver to someone with end-stage disease. Following surgery, ...

YouTuber Brandon Buckingham is finally home after recovering from a severe infection that caused the failure of multiple ...

People with compromised liver function may be able to reduce their risk of liver cancer or slow its progression with a simple ...

Over the past 12 months, hundreds of peer-reviewed cannabis-related studies have been released, covering everything from pain ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are revolutionizing medical care for diseases that impact millions of Americans and the treatments they develop could alleviate major public health challenges ...