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Liver related health news, including research and clinical trials, and any relationship between diabetes and liver health.

Citrus Fruit Prevents Diabetes, Heart Disease, Liver Disease

Citrus Fruits May Help Prevent Obesity-Related Diabetes, Heart and Liver Disease

Being obese increases the risk of developing heart disease, liver disease and diabetes, but researchers report that citrus fruit may help prevent the effect...
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and Januvia

Disappointing Data for Diabetes Drug and Liver Disease

Promising initial results regarding sitagliptin, which is currently used to treat diabetes under the brand name Januvia, and it's positive effect on liver disease...
Liver Disease Risk Greater for Type 2 Diabetics

Study: Type 2 Diabetes Increases Liver Disease Risk

New research shows that certain people with type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of serious liver disease. People with type 2 diabetes are at...

Drinking Sugar-Sweetened Drinks Every Day Linked to Fatty Liver Disease

A daily sugar-sweetened beverage habit may increase the risk for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Find out which drinks they tested and what they found...
Stem Cell Research - Type 1 Diabetes

Breakthrough Will Help Stem Cell Researchers Develop New Type 1 Diabetes Therapies and More

New understanding, say researchers, will help spur advancements in stem cell research and the development of new cell therapies for diseases of the liver...
mitochondrial protonophore 2,4-dinitrophenol - DNP

Yale Researchers Reverse Type 2 Diabetes and Fatty Liver Disease Using Banned Weight Loss...

Did Yale researchers really discover a way to reverse type 2 diabetes, along with fatty liver disease, using a banned agent that had been...

Morbidity Following Liver Transplant is Highest Among Obese Patients with Diabetes

Researchers report that morbidity following liver transplant is highest among obese patients with diabetes, but these risk factors do not influence post-transplant survival.

More Benefits Emerging for One Type of Omega-3 Fatty Acid, Including Prevention of Fatty...

A study of the metabolic effects of omega-3 fatty acids concludes that these compounds may have an even wider range of biological impacts than previously considered, and suggests they could be of significant value in the prevention of fatty liver disease.

Liver Fat Gets a Wake-Up Call That Maintains Blood Sugar Levels; Protects from Glucose...

A research team reports that test subjects in which an enzyme called histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) was deleted had massively fatty livers, but lower blood sugar, and were thus protected from glucose intolerance and insulin resistance, the hallmark of diabetes.

Common Diabetes Drug May Help Prevent Liver Cancer

A drug widely used to treat Type II diabetes, may help to prevent primary liver cancer, researchers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center report in the April 2012 issue of Cancer Prevention Research.