Gallbladder disease includes inflammation, infection, stones or blockage of the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a sac located under the liver. It stores and concentrates bile produced in the liver.

Primary liver cancer is cancer that started in the liver. This section is mainly about the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). If you have cancer that started in another ...

The 47-year-old Queens resident received a heart, kidney and liver at North Shore University Hospital on Feb. 8, during the first-ever triple transplant of those organs on Long Island ...

David Stanbridge had just finished a round of golf with his father-in-law for his birthday last July. He then noticed a “dark spot” on his arm, but brushed it aside, believing it was an insect bite.

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

This integrated trio of care wasn't always available to patients with liver disease, says Courtney Sherman, MD, hepatologist and associate professor at UC San Francisco. "In medical school ...

Acetaminophen, one of the most widely used painkillers in the world, can cause liver damage in those who rely too heavily on it. “I actually witnessed a resident have to be taken to the ...

Your liver plays a crucial role in keeping your body healthy, and taking care of it should be a priority. Liver disease is silently creeping into more and more lives in India, and cirrhosis is one ...

A Chinese research team has successfully completed the world's first transplant of a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead human, with the organ showing good physiological function, Xinhua ...

Representational image: In a 50-year-old brain-dead recipient, the transplanted liver survived and performed basic functions for more than a week. The wait for a life-saving organ is agonizing.

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic ...

Tennessee state Rep. Kevin Raper (R-Cleveland) returned to the Tennessee General Assembly's House on Representatives Thursday to resume his duties representing the 24th District some five weeks after ...