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Foundation for Decision Making, Liver Wellness and
Prevention of Hepatitis and Drug Abuse
Learn new techniques to protect yourself, your
staff and your patients. We can train your staff, healthcare
providers, and educators.
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The Institute of Medicine Report
Released:
“Hepatitis and Liver
Cancer – A National Strategy for Prevention
and Control of Hepatitis B and C.”.
A summary of the report is available at:
viral hepatitis project website.
SAMHSA/CSAP Community Prevention
Day
Don't Miss Powerful Motivational Prevention Messages.
"Best of Show" last year, Thelma King
Thiel, aka, The Liver Lady,
is returning to share new and life-altering messages to impact
everyone's life.
Put
Monday, February 8th at 1:45 PM and
again at 3:15 PM. at
the Gaylord National Convention Center in Washington, DC on
your "must attend” list for this important conference.
For more information,
click here.
Registration Now Open

February
5, 2010
Durham,
North Carolina
Hepatitis
Foundation International announces a 1 day
professional education and training Summit for health
professionals
and others working with people who are affected by or
infected
with viral hepatitis, including:
 
Click
here for registration and agenda
Breaking
News
Helpful Tips While Waiting for HCV
Treatment
For those who are aware of their HCV infection and have opted
to wait for treatment, here are some important tips to support
your liver health in the meantime. Click
here.
FDA
Approves Use Test for HIV, Hepatitis B Virus, and
Hepatitis C Virus
Roche has announced that the United States
Food & Drug
Administration (FDA) approved an additional intended use for
its licensed nucleic acid test, called the cobas® TaqScreen
MPX Test for the simultaneous, direct detection of the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1 Group M RNA, HIV-1 Group O
RNA , HIV-2 RNA), hepatitis C virus RNA and hepatitis B virus
DNA in human plasma.
Click here.
Hepatitis Legislation
The Hepatitis B
and Hepatitis C bills have been combined in a
bipartisan bill –
Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Control and
Prevention Act 2009 (HR 3974) and introduced in Congress by
U.S. Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) and Charles Dent (R-
PA) on October 29. This bill will expand education for patients
and health care providers, increase access to hepatitis testing
and liver cancer screening, improve the capacity of health
departments and support viral hepatitis prevention and
education program across the nation.
Click here to read the
bill.
View "Give Your Liver A Break", an Emmy Awarded DVD on
YouTube.
Click here

Articles of Interest
Impact of Lifestyles on
Hepatitis C
In HCV-infected
patients, the top three predictors of liver
related mortality were having higher body mass index (BMI),
presence of insulin resistance (IR), and elevated serum
cholesterol. Overall mortality in HCV patients was most linked
to metabolic syndrome, higher BMI and hypertension.
Click here for more information.
Telaprevir Effective in Treating Previously Failured Response
Vertex’s telaprevir,
an experimental drug for hepatitis C, is
showing that it can cure about half of the patients
who failed
to respond to standard treatments. The study found
that 51
percent of patients who took telaprevir in
combination with
standard drugs for six months were cured and 52
percent were
cured.
Click here for more information.
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