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UPMC has partnered with the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and ALF to educate patients on the liver and kidney waiting lists about the benefits of receiving organs from a living donor.

I am responding with my experience with HE as I was a caregiver for my brother, Javier Nunez, who passed away 8/8/11 due to a brain hemorrhage 3 days after transplant.

I began to cut the grass on the greens, and enjoyed this greatly, but I just didn’t feel right. I felt very weak, slow and forgetful, certainly not normal. I was diagnosed with liver disease.

I walked in my first Liver Life Walk just 6 weeks post-transplant. I was diagnosed with liver disease in February of 2010, after being sick for about 2 years.

John is dedicated to helping others living with hepatitis C. A Vietnam veteran and retired New York City firefighter, he was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1994.

Excessive alcohol consumption can destroy your liver. Liver disease caused by alcohol can be reversed.

Some friends would give you the shirts off their backs. Others would give you the lobes of their livers. That is just what John did when his best friend’s brother needed a liver transplant.

A new comprehensive study shows overall cancer deaths are down, but with liver cancer as the concerning exception.

This is the season for colds and flu and as you head to the drugstore, it is important to be aware that too much acetaminophen can be dangerous.

I don’t have a liver condition nor does anyone in my family, but I know the pain and worry a family can feel if they have a loved one with liver disease.

Having Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH), Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) and Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) can be challenging.

Liver cancer is the growth and spread of unhealthy cells in the liver. Cancer that starts in the liver is primary liver cancer.