Winter 2010 Issue
Current Approach to Prevention and Control of Hepatitis B and C Is Not Working in the U.S.

Current Approach to Prevention and Control of
Hepatitis B and C Is Not Working in the U.S.

An IOM report concluded: “These diseases are not widely recognized as serious public health problems in the U.S. As a result, inadequate resources are being allocated to viral hepatitis.” Read More...


 
Pregnant Women with HBV Face Critical Challenges

Pregnant Women with HBV
Face Critical Challenges

Hepatitis B infection during pregnancy presents several important issues, including maternal and fetal effects of HBV, treatment of hepatitis B during pregnancy and prevention of perinatal infection. Read More...

  
Support the Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Prevention and Control Act of 2009 (H.R. 3974)

Support the Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Prevention
and Control Act of 2009 (H.R. 3974)

Dr. Brian McMahon, scientific program and clinical director of the Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program, Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Read More...

  
Children with HBV (Finally) Have Guidelines, Too!”  hspace=

Children with HBV (Finally)
Have Guidelines, Too!

An expert panel of nationally recognized pediatric liver specialists developed recommendations for pediatricians that stress the need for routine monitoring of children with chronic HBV infections. Read More...

  
”Quotable

Quotable Quotes...
About Dating and Sex

Steve Bingham, (Retired) Co-Owner of the Internet Hepatitis B Information and Support List, shares comments from HB-Listserv members about challenges people with HBV face with regard to dating and sex. Read More...

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