Colorectal cancer is the fourth-most-common cancer in the U.S. and the second deadliest. One in 5 patients is diagnosed with ...

Liver disease patients waiting for a transplant have been offered fresh hope. A new mechanism for rapid liver regeneration triggered by a chemical messenger called glutamate has been discovered.

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

Dr. Ma. Vanessa H. De Villa shares why a support group for liver transplant patients, dubbed 'Ligtas,' is relaunched at The Medical City on . She also encourages people to seek early treatment to ...

Fourteen-month-old Tomas was diagnosed with ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency when he was a few weeks old ...

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an used a genetically modified ...

Dr. Steve Bynon was accused of changing figures in a database so certain patients on the waitlist would be unable to receive ...

The first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human was undertaken by Chinese researchers last year, according to a new, peer-reviewed study. The patient was clinically brain ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

Living donor liver transplants in the U.S. are disheartening when compared to living donor kidney transplants, yet the need is enormous. American Liver Foundation (ALF) is committed to meeting this ...