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The Liver Disease News article “Steatotic liver disease and diet: Foods to eat and avoid” of March 4, 2026, by Marisa Wexler, MS has news you can use. Key Takeaways… Read more: Liver Disease and Diet

Summary: Acute Liver Failure: 5 Things to Know By Eugenia Tsai, MD (May 8, 2026), and here’s the URL of the article on Medscape: This article reviews the key clinical… Read more: Acute Liver Failure

This paper titled “Organ failure-based clinical classification at onset of acute-on-chronic liver failure: a prospective multicenter cohort study” from Scientific Reports proposes a new way to classify acute-on-chronic liver failure… Read more: ACLF Classification Reconsidered

The article by Elliott Tapper, MD entitled “The Changing Face of Cirrhosis” is a must read. It was published April 15, 2026 in docwirenews. Summary- 🔑 The Core Shift Cirrhosis… Read more: Cirrhosis Shift

LiverRight’s David Sires and Kevin Harlen are at DDW in Chicago. Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2026 takes place in Chicago, IL, from May 2–5, 2026, offering a premier forum for GI… Read more: DDW 2026

Summary of the article from Pitchbook titled “PitchBook Analyst Note: AI Will Deliver Care to Billions and Break the System That Built It.” 🧠 Core thesis AI will massively expand… Read more: AI and the Healthcare Effect

Enlightening article from Roll Call: “Deadly liver disease, rooted out elsewhere, retains grip on US“. Summary: Bottom line The article argues that the U.S. has the tools to eliminate hepatitis… Read more: Hepatitis C in America Today

As of 2026, there are ~1,359 FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center) organizations in the United States, operating more than 16,300 service delivery sites. These sites are located across all 50… Read more: Hello, FQHCs

Great article here- Timely hepatitis C screening helps US patients avoid costly illness (Investing in early treatment saves thousands in healthcare expenses over time) from April 23, 2026 in Liver… Read more: HCV Testing Drives Savings

Liver needs one of these: HHS Announces $4 Million KidneyX EMPOWER Prize Challenge and Health Technology Project to Advance Living Kidney Donation and Patient-Centered Innovation. Key quote: The $4 million… Read more: Hello, KidneyX

Most liver disease is preventable. April 19, 2026 is World Liver Day. From the site https://worldliverday.org/ — Solid Habits, Strong Liver. Your liver is a powerhouse:  it filters blood, breaks… Read more: World Liver Day

Lisa Norris is the Managing Director & Principal at Transplant Leadership Institute LLC, and a veteran Transplant Services Director. This is her superb book relating to the $11 billion in… Read more: Transplant Administration Explained

Liver disease can turn into liver cancer through a gradual, multi-step process driven by chronic damage, inflammation, and cell mutation. Here’s the clearest way to understand it: 1. Chronic liver… Read more: How Liver Disease Can Become Liver Cancer

The JAMA Network Open article of 01/26/2026 titled “Mobile Telemedicine for Treating Chronic Hepatitis C Among Rural People Who Inject Drugs” is revelatory– 🧠 Study Overview 🔑 Key Findings 💡… Read more: Mobile Telemedicine for Treating Hepatitis

The article “8 takeaways about MASH, an increasingly common liver disease associated with obesity” from Managed Care Executive dated April 7, 2026, has a cogent analysis on MASLD/MASH. Summarized– 8… Read more: MASH Explainer

Here we summarize “Association between metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and obstructive sleep apnea: a nationwide retrospective cohort study” from Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), March 2026. 🎯 Objective The study… Read more: OSA and Liver Disease

There’s an important article titled “Par for the course? Comparative effectiveness of PPAR agonists in PBC” from April 2026 in Hepatology by Robert M. Wilechansky, and it’s summarized below– 🧠… Read more: PBC Medications

Here’s a summary on this April 2, 2026 article from USC Keck – “Occasional Heavy Drinking May Triple the Risk of Liver Damage.” 🧠 Key takeaway Even occasional heavy drinking… Read more: Binge Drinking and Liver Damage

This article is worth reading, from JAMA Internal Medicine dated March23, 2026: “Health Benefits, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness of Jail-Based Hepatitis C Elimination Strategies“. 🎯 Objective The study evaluated whether screening,… Read more: HCV and Incarcerated People

US Healthcare is changing. Fast. There’s supernormal change– perhaps transformation, even, as four factors collide. From the March 10, 2026 in The Economist: A new wave of disrupters takes on… Read more: New Wave of Disruptors

The March 2026 journal article titled “Increasing Transplant Access for Low MELD Patients in the United States: Do We Still Need to Increase Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation?” is thought… Read more: Living Donor Need in Liver

Major Headline from March 10, 2026: Johns Hopkins leads $24M multinational consortium to find hepatitis B cure With NIH funding, the group will pursue research and patient care approaches for… Read more: Consortium to Find Hepatitis B cure

🧠 Key takeaway Sugary drinks—especially those high in fructose—promote fat buildup in the liver (hepatic steatosis) through multiple metabolic pathways, increasing the risk of fatty liver disease. ⚙️ How sugary… Read more: Sugary Drinks and Liver Fat

Helio Genomics is a LiverRight partner and had big news on March 18, 2026: Helio Genomics to Make HelioLiver™ Cancer Test Accessible to Quest Diagnostics’ Providers “Quest’s Infrastructure to Enable… Read more: Helio Genomics and Quest Diagnostics

The article “Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Increase Likelihood of Liver Fibrosis More in Women Than Men” from March 16, 2026, is revealing. It’s from a study published in JAMA Network Open. 🔬… Read more: Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Liver Fibrosis

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Her’s asummary of the article published online February 25, 2026 in Gastroenterology —“New Model Performs Well for Detecting Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease” Bottom line:The study introduces a simple, scalable screening model using… Read more: New Models in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease