Three days into my medical career, my first patient died. She was a 27-year-old who succumbed to an autoimmune liver disease. She had been denied a liver transplant for years because she was uninsured ...
The six-day event will bring together thousands of transplant recipients, living donors and donor families to bring awareness ...
Life is full of twists and turns, and it’s often hard to tell how things will come together. When Melissa Sorter’s daughters wanted to take up cross country two years ago, she joined ...
How Mitochondrial Defects Impair Insulin Production in Type 2 Diabetes?In a study published in Science, researchers at the ...
An Ogden man has been denied a lifesaving liver transplant from his brother by his insurance company. Nathan Kirkland ...
"They can drag it out till I'm not here anymore," Kirkland told KETV before he heard the news of the claim's reversal. "And then they win because ... they don't have to pay for it." ...
Recent research suggests that a new approach could help even patients with advanced forms of fatty liver disease.
CHLA leads the country in one- and three-year liver graft and patient survival for pediatric liver transplants—and is among ...
End-stage liver disease is associated with disruptions in gut microbiota composition and function, which may facilitate ...
A family in Waukesha is facing the unimaginable as two sisters undergo surgery for a life-saving liver transplant.
The risk of developing liver cancer is increased in people who have cirrhosis, a disease in which healthy liver tissue is ...