HCV ADVOCATE EBLAST
January 5, 2010

Hello,

The staff and volunteers at the Hepatitis C Support Project / HCV Advocate would like to wish all of our readers season's greetings and the best of health in the new year.

The following items have been posted to www.hcvadvocate.org and www.hbvadvocate.org.

An important message from the World Hepatitis Alliance concerning World Hepatitis Day 2010

• A Guide to Hepatitis C: Making Treatment Decisions Version 3.0, January 2010
  by Lucinda K. Porter, RN
  
  
• Guía para Comprender la Hepatitis C - 2010
  (A Guide to Understanding Hepatitis C)

• Advocacy
  A Simple Guide to Reading an Abstract (January 2010)
  Advocates and Activists Needed! (January 2010)
  
  
• HCV Treatment
  Adherence to HCV Therapy (January 2010)
  
  
• HCV Wellness
  Brain Fog (January 2010)
  
  

*** HCV ADVOCATE WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW:
A Review of HCV, HBV and HIV/HCV Coinfection Related News and Highlights
Week Ending: January 2, 2010

Alan Franciscus
Editor-in-Chief

To download pdf version click here
 

This Issue:

• Health Risk: Exposure to Bodily Fluids a Reality for Police Officers
• Transplant Rules May Change after Amoebic Disease Found
• New RNA Interference Technique Can Silence up to Five Genes - Advance Could Lead to New Treatments for Liver and Other Organ Diseases
• TYLENOL RECALL 2009: Arthritis Pill Pull Expanded
• China to Ban Mandatory Hepatitis B Tests
• Disinfectant Misuse Might Help Germs Resist Antibiotics
• Bill Piper and Naomi Long: Evidence Suggests Nation’s Destructive ‘War’ Is Ending
• Mobile Needle Exchange ‘Quick and Dirty'
• Advances in microRNA Field Help Define 2009 While RNAi Advances Despite Setbacks
• High Risk of Hepatitis for Those Involved
• Public Safety Committee Accepts Report on Clean Syringe Program
• Keeping Hepatitis C Virus at Bay after a Liver Transplant
• Liver Lines: December 31, 2009

*** Be sure to check out the latest event notices at both the HCV and HBV Advocate websites

• HCV Events
• HBV Events

Thanks!
 
Alan Franciscus
Executive Director, Hepatitis C Support Project
Editor-in-Chief, HCV Advocate

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