Although it is more common than type 2 diabetes, pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer combined, it has remained relatively obscure. By contrast, fatty liver — once called nonalcoholic fatty liver ...

This suggests that both stress and obesity can fuel pancreatic cancer growth through similar mechanisms. In mouse experiments, a high-fat diet alone led to the growth of precancerous pancreatic ...

The UCL Institute for Liver & Digestive Health, is part of the UCL Division of Medicine, is made up of six centres that concentrates the entire clinical and scientific activity in Hepatology at ...

Chronic liver disease is a cluster of disorders associated with complex haemodynamic alterations, which is characterised by structural and functional disruptions of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest and most difficult-to-detect forms of cancer. It kills nearly half a million people annually and has a five-year survival rate of less than 15 percent ...

About half of pancreatic cancer patients experience metastasis to the liver, which worsens the prognosis for an already life-threatening disease. However, a new technology from researchers at the ...

As it moves downward, the abdominal aorta splits into three main branches: the renal arteries (which supply the kidneys), the celiac artery (supplying the stomach and liver), and the superior ... of ...

Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest. Getty Alcohol-related liver diseases are rising in people under 40 — with cases specifically surging in young women ...

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

Pancreatic cancer starts in your pancreas, an organ that makes digestive juices and hormones, including insulin. There are two main types of pancreatic cancers—those that start in the exocrine gland ...