A pioneering new liver cancer treatment, employing focused ultrasound waves to destroy diseased tissue, has been administered to the first NHS patient. Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is the first ...

A new ultrasound-based treatment that destroys liver cancer tumours without surgery or radiation will be offered to NHS patients this summer in a European first. The therapy, called histotripsy, is a ...

In a recent study published in the journal BMC Medicine, researchers compared the rate of new diagnoses among United Kingdom Biobank (UKBB) individuals who received the National Health Service (NHS) ...

The potential market impact is substantial, with applications extending beyond the UK to global healthcare systems struggling with rising liver disease rates." The results will be published in 2026 ...

Researchers from Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) in Spain have identified an effective strategy to reduce structural liver damage and improve hepatic vascular function in cirrhosis. The ...

Using human liver samples and a mouse model of cirrhosis, researchers identified epigenetic overactivation of the inflammatory PAF–PAF-R pathway in hepatic macrophages as a key driver of liver damage.