A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden reveals that immune cells in the liver react to high cholesterol levels and eat up excess cholesterol that can otherwise cause damage to arteries. The ...

Medical researchers at Johns Hopkins aim to accelerate therapies that improve and save lives as liver cancer becomes one of ...

“I used to drink up to 30 units four times a week as a student and into my early thirties [the recommended weekly limit is 14 units a week.] But as I got a regular job, more duties and became a father ...

Scientists from Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) have successfully tested adeno-associated viral vector-based (AAV) gene therapies in whole human livers in the lab. The study, which is ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Thomas Engels is the administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration at the US Department of Health and Human Services. Organ donation can be a profound last gift of ...

Inequities in access to transplant are in part due to the nature and organization of the selection process. The limited organ supply and rising incidence of end-stage organ disease have resulted in a ...

As part of its efforts to strengthen the country’s organ transplant system, the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the firing of one of the groups that arrange U.S. organ donations, effectively closing it ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a move to decertify an organ procurement organization and steps to reform the ...