Liver cancer can arise spontaneously from healthy liver tissue. Recently, however, researchers have discovered an increasing ...

A man went to the hospital several times with gut pain and a fever — and it turned out that his relatively common symptoms had an unusual cause.

This review explores how the body processes ethanol and how alcohol consumption contributes to diseases affecting the liver, gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, and gallbladder. The liver is the primary ...

1 Rudolph Spreckles Physiological Laboratory of the University of California. Search for other works by this author on: ...

A paper in Science Signaling last week (April 20) reports that the liver and lungs of rats produce more TNF than the spleen does, but the spleen remains the master regulator, of the liver at least, ...