Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Liver enzymes are proteins in your liver that speed up chemical reactions. If your ...

An at-home liver test can check for liver disease or help monitor an ongoing condition by measuring certain proteins, enzymes, and bilirubin in your blood. Taking this test can help shed light on ...

Sarepta Therapeutics announced that a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who received Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl) died following treatment.

Jamie Comer, a mom who has been battling colon cancer for nearly a decade, has revealed that she's stopping chemo after a ...

For patients with chronic viral hepatitis, clinicians instinctively rely on liver enzyme measurements to estimate disease activity and assess need for liver biopsy or antiviral treatment.

Detection and Diagnosis Blood tests showing elevated liver enzymes, such as alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) can be the first indicators of a compromised liver.

A Beam Therapeutics gene-editing therapy designed to fix a mutation at the root of a rare liver protein deficiency now has early signs of efficacy along with safety data that ease some concerns ...