New Pilot Assessment and Recovery Centres could save hundreds of lives a year
An additional 200 liver transplants could be carried out per year, if 15 pilot Assessment and Recovery Centres (ARC) set up by NHS Blood and Transplant are successful. Under the pilot scheme donated organs that might not otherwise have been transplanted are...
A historic moment for liver health
On the 21st of May 2026, the 79th World Health Assembly voted to adopt a resolution on steatotic liver disease. Steatotic liver disease includes metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH),...
Cell therapy offers ‘real hope’ for people living with cirrhosis
A pioneering treatment which could slow or reverse liver failure and offer a potential alternative to liver transplants has shown positive results in a medical trial. 70% of end-stage liver disease patients who were treated with macrophage cell therapy in the MATCH...
New figures showing nearly 10,000 deaths from alcohol specific causes in 2024 are a tragic wake-up call
New figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) which show 9,809 deaths in the UK from alcohol-specific causes in 2024 have been described by the British Liver Trust as tragically high and a wake-up call. While the Trust says it is encouraging that the...