The National Institute for Health and Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended FibroScan, a non-invasive hepatic ultrasound scan, as an option for assessing liver damage from fibrosis and ...

You might want to reconsider hitting the drive-thru. In another stunning rebuke of a fast-food diet, researchers find it puts us at increased risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)—even ...

Liver elastography is a test that measures the stiffness of your liver. Stiffness is usually caused by scarring, which can be a sign of liver disease. A liver scan is an ultrasound of the liver ...

OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perspectum ® ’s LiverMultiScan ® significantly enhanced patient understanding of chronic liver disease (CLD) care in a first-of-its-kind study published in the ...

BALTIMORE (KFSN) -- Thirty million Americans, or one in 10, have some form of liver disease. It could be scarring from a hepatitis C infection, cirrhosis or even liver cancer. Doctors are now using a ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study shows that a simple, non-invasive “contrast enhanced ultrasound” (CEUS) scan can be more accurate and reliable than a more expensive MRI procedure for diagnosis ...

Okay, so chances are having a liver scan will not lead to being strip-searched; though if you live in New York, you might want to avoid taking public transportation for a while. A 34-year old New ...

Liver cancer leads to more number of human deaths nowadays. Patient survival chances can be increased by early detection of the tumour. Texture analysis based on moment features for CT liver scan ...

Study researchers found no link between more liver fat and poor outcomes in patients with stage I-III rectal cancer.