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China's Hepatitis B Virus Drug Market Will Grow to $800 Million by 2012
Competition From Chinese Makers Present Considerable Challenge to Branded Western Drug Companies Seeking to Penetrate Market, According to a New Report From Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., August 28, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the

State urges clinic's patients to be tested for hepatitis C
LAURINBURG A nuclear stress test involves injecting a radioactive substance into the bloodstream as a way to check for inadequate blood flow in the heart. A recent investigation of the clinic revealed that unsafe medical practices could have been used

interTrend Partners With The San Francisco Hep B Free Campaign to Increase Awareness and Understanding of Hepatitis B
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- interTrend Communications, a full-service Asian American marketing communications agency, joined forces with The SF Hep B Free Campaign (The SF Hep B Free) in creating the 'B a Hero' advertising campaign to

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Hep C Treatment: Comparing the Pegylated Interferons
Learn about the facts on pegylated interferon alfa-2a and pegylated interferon alfa-2b, the standard treatment for chronic Hepatitis C. Comparing and contrasting the pegylated interferons may help better explain a physician’s preference or indifference between the two when treating their...

Vertex's Advanced Trial Could Change HCV Treatment
Hundreds of non-responders to interferon-ribavirin combination therapy will be enrolled in a late stage clinical trial for Vertex's telaprevir....

Silymarin Improves Quality of Life During Hepatitis C Treatment
Although a large-scale study concluded long-term interferon therapy to be ineffectual for Hepatitis C management, it demonstrated improvements in quality of life for participants supplementing with silymarin....

Recommend Books On Organ Transplants

ComaLife: What the Hell is Going on Here
by Richard Darling

Edition: Paperback

Hardbound Edition

Dr. Starzl performed the first Liver Transplant

The Puzzle People:
Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon

by Thomas E. Starzl

Hardcover - 364 pages (September 1992)

A Gift of Life: A Page From the Life of a Living Organ Donor

by Paul Jenkins (Editor), Lynn Chabot-Long

Paperback - 184 pages (July 1996)

Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities

by Stuart J. Youngner (Editor), Renee C. Fox (Editor), Laurence J. O'Connell (Editor)

Paperback - 312 pages (April 1, 1996)

The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate

by Arthur L. Caplan (Editor), Daniel H. Coelho (Editor)

Paperback - 320 pages (March 1999)

I'm Glad You're Not Dead: A Liver Transplant Story

by Elizabeth Parr

Paperback (December 1996)

A Change of Heart: A Memoir

by Claire Sylvia, William Novak (Contributor), Bernie S. Siegel

Synopsis

After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor--a teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident--and learns that it is indeed possible for two souls to merge in one body.

Mass Market Paperback - 288 pages (March 1998)

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