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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A liver ultrasound is a noninvasive test a doctor orders to examine the liver, its blood vessels, and sometimes the gallbladder. Abnormal results may indicate a person has liver disease or signal an ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When primary care physicians interact with virtual specialists in hepatology, more of their patients have ...

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 ...

Community Diagnostic Centres allow patients to be scanned for potential illnesses. A charity boss is "deeply concerned" after the government u-turned on plans for community diagnostic centres. The ...

Told he had liver cancer, Roger Jackson feared the worst. ‘I thought, “Here we go, I’m going to die”,’ says the 80-year-old great-grandfather and retired sales manager. Patients in Roger’s situation ...