FWD: C-Network Hepatitis News Alert for 25 January 2008

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LIVING WITH HEP C

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When living is all the best revenge

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/theater/06simo.html?_r=3 & ref=theater & oref=slog\

in & oref=slogin & oref=slogin

Better days ahead

http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008/jan/07/better-days-ahead/

Cold showers to treat depression?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17993252?ordinalpos=41 & itool=EntrezSystem2.PE\

ntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

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NEW HEP C RESOURCES

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'Hep Chat' Weekly Radio Program Podcasts from Hepatitis C Council of

http://3cr.org.au/podcast/podcast.php?cat=HepChat

New website: Wizz Wize - Peer Education - Users Educating Users

http://wizzwize.com.au/

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HEP C TREATMENT

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Schering Plough Reports Top Line Results Of The IDEAL Study

http://www.forbes.com/prnewswire/feeds/prnewswire/2008/01/14/prnewswire200801140\

916PR_NEWS_USPR_____NYM051.html

Roche Responds To Announcement Of 'IDEAL' Hepatitis C Trial Results

http://www.rocheusa.com/newsroom/current/2008/pr2008011402.html

PEGINTRON and REBETOL® Approved in European Union for Retreating Hepatitis

C Patients Who Failed Previous Pegylated or Non-Pegylated Interferon Therapy

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/news/newsRev/2007/NewsRev-231.html#_PEGINTRON_and\

_REBETOL®

Vertex Pharmaceuticals to Begin Phase 3 Development of Telaprevir,

Investigational Hepatitis C Protease Inhibitor

http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/350845.html

Human Genome Sciences Modifies Dosing In Achieve Trials Of Albuferon®

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/94919.php

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HEP C TRANSMISSION

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D.I.Y piercing kits available over the counter and on internet

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23043749-2862,00.html

Doctor re-used syringes for flu shots

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lidoc0116,0,1680682.story

Outpatient clinic had its own hepatitis outbreak [united States]

2002: 99 patients acquire hep C from re-used syringes at cancer treatment center

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/tuesday/news/ny-linebr145\

538619jan15,0,1808346,print.story

Hepatitis C Cases Alarm Bosnian Doctors

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/analysis/7374/

'Protective Cover' Hilarious Condom song from India

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uknDkAw-tU & e

Sexual Transmission and Hepatitis C

http://www.hepqld.asn.au/factsheets/29%20-%20Sexual%20Transmission%20-%20Factshe\

et.pdf

Condoms in Australian prisons

http://www.ssonet.com.au/display.asp?ArticleID=7602

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LIVER HEALTH

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Aust doctors hail teen's transplant 'miracle'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/24/2145289.htm

Video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a5d_1201196813

Living donor liver transplant yields better survival than deceased donor

http://www.hearingproductsreport.com/reuters_article.asp?id=20080107clin005.html

Possible New Method for Detecting and Monitoring Liver Disease without Liver

Biopsies

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hep_c/news/2008/011408_a.html

Use of CT Scans to Monitor Liver Fibrosis in People with Hepatitis C

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hep_c/news/2008/011408_b.html

Proteomic profiling shown more accurate than traditional biomarkers in

identifying liver cancer

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/bidm-pps011108.php

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DRUGS AND ALCOHOL

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Of Substance: The National Magazine on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs

January 2008 issue:

http://www.ofsubstance.org.au/archive/pdf/ofsubstance_2008_1.pdf

Texas Needle-Swap Activists Face Charges

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5it2CUTwkCdGVoWHsbPFDqYOrpiDQD8UBO0VG1

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HEPATITIS B

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Hepatitis B Vaccination and the Risk of Childhood-Onset Multiple Sclerosis

http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/161/12/1176

Extended Duration Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2a (Pegasys) for Patients with HBeAg

Negative Chronic Hepatitis B

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hep_b/news/2008/011107_a.html

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HEP C AND HIV CO-INFECTION

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Medicare-funded dental care for people with HIV to be scrapped

http://www.ssonet.com.au/display.asp?ArticleID=7641

CD4 cell count is no predictor of hepatitis C treatment success

http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/FC7CA8C4-A3E6-4A80-A8B9-4915A1121504.asp

Nevirapine (Viramune) Is Linked with Reduced Liver Fibrosis Progression in

HIV-HCV Coinfected Patients

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hiv_hcv_co_inf/2008/011408_a.html

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