Liver Disease

The liver has many important functions, including digesting your food and processing and distributing nutrients.

There are many kinds of liver diseases and conditions. Some, like hepatitis, are caused by viruses. Others can be the result of drugs or drinking too much alcohol. Long-lasting injury or scar tissue in the liver can cause cirrhosis. Jaundice, or yellowing of the skin, can be one sign of liver disease.

Your Digestive System and How It Works

Featured Topics

• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Autoimmune Hepatitis

• Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and NASH
• Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and NASH in Children

• Cirrhosis
• Hemochromatosis
• Biliary Atresia
• Liver Biopsy

More Liver Disease Topics

Clinical Trials

Clinical trials offer hope for many people and opportunities to help researchers find better treatments in the future

Research Discoveries & News

• NIH study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver 
• NIH study sheds light on immune responses driving obesity-induced liver disease 
• Improved outcomes and survival following acute liver failure in recent years
• Story of Discovery: Hepatitis C: from non-A, non-B hepatitis to a cure
• Plant toxins linked to biliary atresia in newborn animals
• Allergy drug inhibits hepatitis C in mice 

More Research News

Liver Disease Topics

• Alagille Syndrome
• Autoimmune Hepatitis
• Biliary Atresia
• Cirrhosis
• ERCP
• Hemochromatosis
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis B: What Asian and Pacific Islander Americans Need to Know

• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis D
• Hepatitis E
• Hepatitis (Viral)
• Liver Biopsy
• Liver Transplant
• Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and NASH
• Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and NASH in Children

• Porphyria
• Primary Biliary Cholangitis (Primary Biliary Cirrhosis)
• Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
• Wilson Disease
• Your Digestive System and How It Works