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Regular exercise has many benefits for the health and wellbeing of people living with fatty liver disease. Fatty liver disease means you have too much fat in the liver. It’s the most common liver disease in the world. It affects about one in three adults. If you don’t look after yourself, it can lead to… Read more
A healthy diet, regular exercise and losing excess body weight can help reverse fatty liver disease. Here are some tips for daily life. Getting a diagnosis of fatty liver disease can come as a shock. You had no symptoms, perhaps you received your diagnosis after an ultrasound for a completely different matter. In fact, around… Read more
The Annual West Coast Liver Meeting is a unique multidisciplinary meeting that happens annually on the West Coast of Australia. The meeting brings together international hepatologists, liver transplant surgeons, radiologists, immunologists, histopathologists and surgeons and physicians from various other disciplines. Our keynote speakers are internationally renowned in their area of work and come to the… Read more
The virus that causes COVID-19 is very contagious. People with liver disease are just as likely to get infected as anyone else. How does COVID-19 affect the liver? COVID-19 can affect the liver along with many other organs. If you catch COVID-19, it can raise levels of the enzymes alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and/or aspartate aminotransferase… Read more
The Liver Foundation has launched brand new GP Education and it’s getting rave reviews from GPs. Liver diseases cost Australia 40% more than type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney diseases combined. Metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is the most prevalent liver disease in history. But knowledge of this condition among GPs is generally poor, given… Read more
One of the best things you can do to protect your liver is to bring more movement and exercise into your day. Your liver is essential for life. It performs over 500 vital functions every day. One of the best things you can do to protect this amazing organ is to bring more movement and… Read more
The Liver Foundation, the nation’s peak body for liver health, is excited to welcome internationally recognised strategist Sally Castle as its new Chief Executive Officer. Internationally reocgnised strategist, Sally Castle, joins the liver foundation as new CEO The Liver Foundation, the nation’s peak body for liver health, is excited to welcome internationally recognised strategist Sally… Read more
There are many different perspectives on how to eat well and be healthy throughout your life. Building a healthy diet doesn’t have to be complicated. There’s the Mediterranean diet, the Keto diet, ‘clean eating’, vegetarian, plant based, the healthy eating pyramid… It can easily be an information overload. Where do you start? Fortunately, building a… Read more
Two exciting Liver disease related projects have secured funding from the Federal Government’s $20 billion Medical Research Future Fund. Associate Professor Amany Zekry from UNSW Microbiome Research Centre, has been awarded $4 million to develop microbial based biomarkers, powered by artificial intelligence, for the early detection of liver cancer. A/Prof. Zekry commented, “Liver cancer is… Read more
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