KidneyX EMPOWER Winners

HHS Announces Winners of the 2026 KidneyX EMPOWER: Living Link Prize Challenge to Advance Living Kidney Donation and Patient-Centered Innovation “WASHINGTON, D.C. — August 27, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the nine...

Lean Fatty Liver

Summary: Lean Fatty Liver May Still Carry Meaningful Liver Risk A large multinational study highlighted by GI & Hepatology News (Aug. 12, 2026), titled “Lean steatosis without metabolic risk factors tied to liver-related death,” challenges the idea...

Wired Article on Hep & AI

The 08/13/2026 WIRED article titled “There’s a Fatty Liver Epidemic. AI Could Help Get Ahead of It” argues that fatty liver disease has become a massive, largely silent public-health problem: more than a billion people worldwide have excess liver fat, and...

Microplastics and Liver Metabolism

Summary The June 19, 2026 articled titled “Spatial transcriptome mapping identifies Ppara-Anxa2 cross-talk in microplastic-induced hepatotoxicity” is edifying. A new preclinical study suggests that polyethylene (PE) microplastics may directly disrupt liver...