Liver disease disparities tied to insurance and race spanned HCC surveillance, transplant listing, and drug access in data at The Liver Meeting 2026.

GOLD leaders say COPD is diagnosed too late and its smoking-only image is outdated, and the 2027 report puts rehab and non–drug care up front.

This week in health equity and access: Medicaid cuts; mailed FIT outreach; EEOC pregnancy rules; GLP-1 Bridge access; and 2027 policy shifts.

In this Q&A, Rob Stransky of NiceRx explains how to screen patients for gray-market retatrutide use and why cost drives demand for unregulated peptides.

Elafibranor and seladelpar normalized ALP in most patients with primary biliary cholangitis whose ALP was below the usual escalation threshold.

Most patients with MASH stay on resmetirom at 1 year, but Medicaid coverage was tied to lower odds of filling a first prescription within 30 days.

Six studies found liver transplant disparities by insurance, region, ethnicity, and sex, plus links between unmet social needs and frailty in cirrhosis.

Hepatitis B functional cure with bepirovirsen held in 90% to 92% of responders 48 weeks after stopping all therapy, per data at The Liver Meeting 2026.