Unhealthy diets, sedentary lifestyles and obesity are pushing up rates of non-alcoholic fatty liver, but this dangerous silent condition is reversible. Luisa Metcalfe asks the experts what we need to know
The cutting-edge therapy is the first to treat cirrhosis, the scarring of liver tissue caused by heavy drinking, fatty diets and long-term infections from the viruses hepatitis B and C.
The lesser-known Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (or NALFD) is perhaps a hidden illness you have never come across before - and one in three of us are already developing it