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The clinical trial originally set out to simply test the safety and dosage of the gene therapy for three patients with GSD Type Ia. The dramatic improvement in their lives was unexpected.

Unauthorized immigrants who receive liver transplants in the United States have comparable three-year survival rates to US citizens, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco. Yet access to life-saving organs for this population varies widely by state, in part due to a medical misperception that undocumented migrants face a higher risk of transplant failure.

Blooms of blue-green algae have flourished across much of the United States this year. New research from UToledo suggests the toxins those blooms produce can significantly amplify non-alcoholic fatty liver disease at levels below what would harm a healthy liver.

A study involving military veterans with PTSD and cirrhosis of the liver points to an abnormal mix of bacteria in the intestines as a possible driver of poor cognitive performance -- and as a potential target for therapy.

This observational study examined among liver transplant candidates whether the association of frailty and increased risk of death while on the waiting list for a transplant varied by body mass index.

A new method of preservation maintains human liver tissue for up to 27 hours will give doctors and patients a much longer timeframe for organ transplant.

Researchers from Taiwan and Japan, led by Dr Victor Kok of Kuang Tien General Hospital and Asia University Taiwan, found that when the anticancer drug Sorafenib was combined with TACE, a radiological treatment procedure, patients with liver cancer had higher survival. This result comes from the largest population-based study available on this topic and will help doctors improve existing therapies for liver cancer, which kills thousands of people worldwide.