Cirrhosis in the VA

The paper “Steatotic Liver Disease Has Surpassed Viral Hepatitis as the Leading Cause of Cirrhosis in the U.S. Veterans Health System” (American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2026) analyzed all U.S. Veterans Health Administration patients with cirrhosis...

GLP-1 Effect in Liver

A new UC San Diego-led study titled “GLP-1 Shows Promise for Patients with Advanced Fatty Liver Disease” provides encouraging evidence that GLP-1 receptor agonists may benefit patients with advanced metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH),...

Liver Disease: Screenalot

Give this article a read: “Chronic Liver Disease: How PCPs Can Improve Early Detection.” This HCPLive interview with Stevan Gonzalez, MD, MS (Director of Liver Transplantation at Baylor Scott & White Health) is less of a research paper and more of a...

Find HCC Earlier

Here’s a summary of the paper titled: Machine Learning–Assisted Detection of Advanced Liver Fibrosis in Primary Care (2025) One-sentence summary The study found that an AI/machine learning approach applied to routine primary care data substantially improved...

Trinity Health Innovation in HCC

The LinkedIn article titled “Trinity Health Aims to Improve Liver Cancer Screening Rates Through Physician, Patient Education Intervention” highlights a small but potentially high-impact initiative by Trinity Health West Michigan to improve hepatocellular...