Your liver, which is the largest internal organ in your body, is responsible for a lot. It regulates blood clotting, removes toxins like alcohol from your bloodstream, helps in the production of bile ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver damage ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, takes a look at the clues a body may show indicating liver disease. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors ...

Your liver doesn’t complain much. It quietly processes everything you eat and drink, filters toxins, stores nutrients, and performs hundreds of essential functions without demanding attention. This ...

The liver stands as one of the body’s most resilient organs, capable of remarkable regeneration even after sustaining significant damage from years of alcohol consumption. This vital organ, ...

As rates of obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea increase, cases of advanced chronic liver disease ...

Fatty Liver and High Blood Pressure: What’s the Link? Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is associated with high blood pressure, or hypertension, but the cause-effect ...

(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated March 10, 2025) It was a rib scan that 39-year-old Abhirup Bhalla, a banking executive in Gurugram, had gone for following a ...