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July 28 is World Hepatitis Day when communities, doctors, nurses, researchers, and governments raise awareness of viral hepatitis a liver inflammation that can lead to chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer. For 2025, the focus is on breaking ...

When you or a loved one is facing organ failure, it can be hard to understand how the organ transplant waitlist works. Let’s take a look at how the waitlist operates and answer common questions about the transplant waitlist. Most people incorrectly assume ...

This month marks two years since it was announced that fatty liver disease and its subcategories were getting updated nomenclature (names). Let's take a quick look at the revised names so that as you see them appear more frequently online and in articles ...

What They Are and Why They Matter The MELD score plays an important role in determining who gets a liver transplant and when. It helps ensure that the sickest patients, those at the highest risk of death without a transplant, are prioritized. MELD stands ...

Note: NASH is now known as MASH (Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis) Earlier this year, big news in the treatment of MASH was announced and The Liver Institute at Methodist Dallas and the Clinical Research Institute at Methodist Dallas ...

The Liver Institute recently hosted an informative symposium to address the growing concern of Metabolic Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD), formerly known as NAFLD/NASH. By bringing together healthcare providers from across the DFW area and ...

July 28th is World Hepatitis Day and in an effort to do our part in increasing awareness and spreading education on hepatitis, we want to share some basic information about the world’s most common type of liver infection - hepatitis. What is hepatitis? ...