An ultrasound-guided liver biopsy is a routine procedure in which doctors remove a small piece of liver tissue for analysis in a lab. Your doctor might recommend this procedure if they suspect there ...

The liver has the important function of clearing the body of toxins, and when it doesn’t work correctly it can be deadly. Testing for liver disease used to entail a painful needle biopsy. But now, new ...

In our day to day lives, we experience sudden onset of stabbing pain in parts of our body, try to treat it with home remedies and when severity increases, we rush to the clinic. Many times diseases ...

A diagnosis of cancer is bad enough, but news that it has spread to the liver has always been cataclysmic. Few people survive for five years once cancer is detected in the liver, most living on ...

WEBVTT WOMAN'S DOCTOR. MINDY: WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS A PROCEDURE CALLED A FIBROSCAN OF THE LIVER. IT'S NON-INVASIVE SIMILAR TO AN ULTRASOUND. IT MEASURES THE DEGREE OF SCARRING, OR FIBROSIS, ON THE ...

DETROIT — Karl Dennis of Detroit is a Henry Ford Hospital patient who has had liver concerns that require a needle biopsy. "It feels like the air is being knocked out of you when that procedure is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . To reduce unnecessary liver biopsies, Perspectum Diagnostics has been awarded 1.1 million euros to develop its ...

OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A health economic study performed by NHS England’s Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) showed that Perspectum’s LiverMultiScan – an artificial ...

The holiday festivities are coming to a close. It’s fairly normal in New Zealand to have spent the last few weeks celebrating with family and friends, attending functions, and enjoying the summer.