UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO IMAGE: DR. MATAM VIJAY-KUMAR, LEFT, A PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY IN THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND LIFE SCIENCES, AND DR. BENG SAN YEOH, A POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, RECENTLY PUBLISHED A STUDY THAT FOUND DIETS RICH IN HIGHLY REFINED FIBER MAY INCREASE THE RISK OF LIVER CANCER, PARTICULARLY IN INDIVIDUALS...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An estimated one-quarter of adults in the U.S. have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an excess of fat in liver cells that can cause chronic inflammation and liver damage, increasing the risk of liver cancer. Now, UT Southwestern researchers have developed a simple blood test to predict...
by Felicia Lindberg, Karolinska Institutet Among adults with chronic viral hepatitis at high risk of liver cancer, those who took low-dose aspirin long-term were less likely to develop liver cancer or to die from liver-related causes. The findings come from a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and conducted by a team...
