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Nov 14, 2025 Diabetes & Your Liver: The Overlooked Connection

November is Diabetes Awareness Month - a time to focus on understanding, preventing, and managing one of the most common chronic conditions in the world. Most people associate diabetes with high blood sugar and insulin resistance, which over time can ...

Nov 5, 2025 Debunking Myths About Prediabetes

November is Diabetes Awareness Month! To help spread awareness about this growing disease we are publishing a blog each week discussing various topics related to diabetes. For our first blog, we are tackling myths surrounding prediabetes. Prediabetes is ...

Oct 29, 2025 22 Years Post-Transplant and Still Amazed to Be Alive

Ralph Taylor is part of The Liver Institute’s early history, becoming one of the first liver transplant patients when he underwent transplant surgery in June 2003. “The Liver Institute had just gotten started at Methodist Dallas Medical Center when I was ...

Oct 20, 2025 October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month

Liver Cancer Is on the Rise — Do You Know the Risks? Since 1980, cases of liver cancer have tripled, and the death rate has more than doubled during that time. There are two main forms of primary liver cancer in adults. “Primary” means the cancer starts in ...

Sep 22, 2025 Mocktails, Wellness, and the Power of Liver Health

Methodist Dallas Medical Center was recently honored to partner with The Beck Group for t heir Employee Wellness and Engagement Event—a unique afternoon of mocktail making by Gustolog y paired with an engaging conversation on liver wellness. The session ...

Sep 8, 2025 Liver Dialysis: An Overview

What is liver dialysis? When your liver no longer functions properly, toxins such as bile and fatty acids build up because your failing liver can no longer clear them. Liver dialysis is a detoxifying treatment used for liver failure. Sometimes this ...

Sep 2, 2025 National Recovery Month: Do you need help?

National Recovery Month, started in 1989, is celebrated every September to raise awareness about effective treatment and recovery options, recognize the strength of the recovery community, and appreciate the service providers and communities that help make ...

Jul 28, 2025 World Hepatitis Day 2025

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 ...