While the liver is one of the body's most resilient organs, it is still vulnerable to the ravages of stress and aging, leading to disease, severe scarring and failure. A Duke Health research team now ...

Bottom line: This study discovered a circuit in the brain that connects stress with increased glucose and therefore may link stress to type 2 diabetes. In stressful situations, this circuit from the ...

Your liver works tirelessly around the clock, processing toxins, producing essential proteins, and managing your body’s metabolic functions. Yet many people unknowingly engage in daily behaviors that ...

“[...] our results put the basis for the use of antioxidants supplementation in Down Syndrome patients to prevent liver-associated pathologies.” Down Syndrome (DS ...

Binge drinking is when a person consumes four or more drinks on one occasion. Binge drinking episodes can cause fat buildup ...

Duke researchers may have discovered how to make aging livers young again. By studying liver cells from both humans and mice, they found that age and stress cause the liver's main cells to die through ...