In short, liver cirrhosis is dangerous but not hopeless. Women should know the signs such as extreme tiredness, yellow skin, ...

Fatty liver disease is on the rise among women, often silently progressing until major damage is done. But what causes fatty liver in women specifically? From hormonal shifts to lifestyle choices, the ...

Most people have never heard of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), but the progressive, rare cholestatic liver disease can cause uncomfortable and even life-altering symptoms, and if left untreated, ...

Your liver doesn’t complain much. It quietly processes everything you eat and drink, filters toxins, stores nutrients, and performs hundreds of essential functions without demanding attention. This ...

Alcohol-related liver disease is increasing at more than twice the rate it did two decades ago, with women seeing the sharpest rise, according to a study published July 23 in Clinical Gastroenterology ...

Stock image of a young woman having a cocktail. According to a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers looked at data from 3,340 people, ranging in age ...

As rates of obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea increase, cases of advanced chronic liver disease ...

Men with cirrhosis had higher risks for adverse liver events than women, including more than twice the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma. This sex-based risk disparity was more pronounced in nonviral ...

Women are nearly 9 percent more likely to die while waiting for a liver transplant than men, a new study shows. The study, published in JAMA Surgery, examined data from adult liver transplant listings ...

A multicenter study led by UC Davis Health has tested a new treatment designed to improve care for people with a rare liver ...

Dr. Jennifer Flemming said there is an “urgent need” to identify risk groups and intervene with treatment and disease management Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...