A biopsy is the best way to tell for certain if an abnormal area is a pre-cancer, an invasive cancer, or neither. Types of cervical biopsies. Several types of biopsies can be used to diagnose cervical ...

Altimmune, Inc. (ALT) on Thursday said that its mid-stage study of Pemvidutide in metabolic dysfunction-associated ...

A liver biopsy remains the only modality that can reliably distinguish steatosis from steatohepatitis. However, there continues to be an ongoing debate regarding the clinical utility of liver ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is common, affecting approximately 25% of the general population. The evidence base for the investigation and management of NAFLD is large and growing, but ...

Six out of ten people with type 2 diabetes had fatty liver in a new study from Linköping University in Sweden. Of these, only a small percentage had developed more severe liver disease. The study ...

Rafael Devers' public refusal to play first base for the Boston Red Sox won't carry over to his time on the San Francisco Giants. After arriving in San Francisc ...

Data on their knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to oral biopsy procedures were collected using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis were performed with a ...

Considering that a biopsy sample taken from an adult corresponds to a fraction of just 1/50,000th to 1/100,000th of the whole liver, a biopsy specimen would seem to be inadequate in the case of ...

A man's Facebook plea for a liver donor attracted the attention of a high-school acquaintance he hadn't spoken to in 20 years. In April 2024, after experiencing appetite loss and losing 15 pounds ...

Objective Patients with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) are at increased risk of death, but studies have rarely investigated the significance of histological severity or estimated relative risks ...

The sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor drug dapagliflozin, widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, also shows improvements for patients with progressive liver disease, finds a ...