The liver is one of the body's quiet workhorses, filtering toxins and helping to digest the food we eat. When it begins to ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Fatty liver disease is a health condition in which fat builds up in the liver. This fat buildup can cause inflammation and, in severe cases, liver damage.

Fatty liver disease (also called steatotic liver disease) happens when too much fat builds up in your liver. It can be caused by high alcohol use or metabolic syndrome (a group of conditions like ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) doesn’t always cause obvious symptoms. When symptoms do appear, fatigue and abdominal pain are the most common. MASLD develops when too ...

The NHS lists nerve pain in your right shoulder as a potential warning sign of liver cancer. Although the right shoulder and liver are not very close to each other in the body, cancer affecting this ...

You may be thinking the shoulder is nowhere near the liver in the human body, but the NHS states that an enlarged liver can press on the nerves supplying the shoulder, causing uncomfortable pain in ...

Your liver silently performs hundreds of essential functions daily, from filtering toxins to supporting digestion and metabolism. Yet this resilient organ faces a formidable adversary in alcohol. The ...

If you’re in menopause, you may be more likely to get new health problems because of changes that happen when your body stops producing estrogen. One of these health problems can be nonalcoholic fatty ...

The symptoms can be a sign of liver cancer due to 'referred pain' ...

Even with Congress in it's lame-duck session, we would like to call attention to the growing problem of liver disease, which is becoming a public health crisis. There are more than 100 different types ...

Liver damage from alcohol-associated liver disease may be possibly reversible in its early stages. In all stages, alcohol cessation is considered critical to overall outlook. Alcohol-associated liver ...