Jorge A. Bezerra, MD, is director of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and medical director of the Pediatric Liver Care Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He is also a ...

Doctors at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Ohio say they have treated at least six cases of severe hepatitis in previously healthy young children aged 18 months through 10 years. One required a ...

CINCINNATI — A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation opens the door to the possibility of new treatments for children who suffer from biliary atresia, a deadly disease of ...

A discovery by a researcher at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, published in The Lancet, may lead to new treatments for a deadly liver disease of infancy -- dramatically reducing the ...

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have developed the first gene chip to use in the early diagnosis of at least five hereditary liver diseases, to detect genetic causes of ...

Biliary atresia is a rare disease that occurs when a delicate tree-like set of ducts that carry bile from the liver to the intestine becomes scarred and blocked. While some treatments can slow the ...

image: Pranavkumar Shivakumar, Ph.D., (standing), and Jorge Bezerra, M.D., of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, analyze a bile duct tissue sample from a 7-day-old mouse. Their study in ...

Biliary atresia is the largest cause of end-stage liver fibrosis in children and the main reason children need liver transplants. Despite many years of worldwide research, scientists have not yet ...

Doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio say they have treated at least six cases of severe hepatitis in previously healthy young children aged 18 months through 10 years. One required a ...