Hepatology News

Health savings accounts are a powerful tool for managing health care expenses, offering significant tax advantages and flexibility.

A surgical team at Virginia Commonwealth University recently performed the first fully robotic liver transplantation in the United States using a liver from a living donor.

Fewer cases of chronic hepatitis C virus are reported each year in Alaska, but rates remain higher among men, younger adults, American Indian or Alaska Native people and rural residents, according to study results.

Animal testing requirements for monoclonal antibodies and other medications will be “reduced, refined or potentially replaced” in favor of other approaches, including artificial intelligence, according to a recent announcement from the FDA.

A 5-year follow-up of the ASCEND study demonstrated increased rates of SVR, high rates of retesting and minimal reinfection among patients with hepatitis C virus regardless of provider type.

Bariatric surgery was associated with improved survival and appeared cost-effective over 10 years among patients with obesity and compensated cirrhosis, according to an analysis published in JAMA Surgery.

A simmering mistrust of medical science and scientific institutions that had been long building in the United States boiled over during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An estimated record-high 91 million Americans are unable to pay for quality health care if they needed it today, according to a new West Health and Gallup survey.

The addition of multiparametric MRI to standard of care was cost-effective and enhanced diagnosis rates among patients with suspected metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease, according to study results in Communications Medicine.