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Fall 2009
Highlights Include:

  • HBV and Pancreatic Cancer
  • HBV Discrimination in China Persists
  • Highlights from 9th Annual Patient Conference
  • Hepatitis B Foundation Capitol News 
  • Personally Speaking: For My Daughter

Spring 2009
Highlights Include:

  • Children Need Guidelines, Too
    (HBF convenes first Pediatric HBV Workshop of liver specialists)
  • When More Can Be Worse: HBV Co-Infections
  • A Network to Watch – NIH Hepatitis B Clinical Research Network
  • Final NIH Consensus Conference Statement on the Management of HBV
  • Donor List 2008

acrobat documentWinter 2009
Highlights Include:

  • NIH Consensus Conference on Management of HBV
  • International HBV Meeting 2008
  • Navigating the HBV Treatment Guidelines
  • Foundation at the Forefront

acrobat documentFall 2008
Highlights Include:

  • Op-Ed by Baruch Blumberg
  • Congressional Briefing Results in Action
  • Dr. Anna Lok Honored at Crystal Ball
  • HBF Patient Conference 2008 Attracts Hundreds

acrobat documentSpring 2008
Highlights Include:

  • HepDART 2007 Tackles HCC
  • New Gateway to Care Campaign
  • Believe in the Cure Cycling Tour
  • Finding a Good Doctor

acrobat documentWinter 2008
Highlights Include:

  • International HBV Meeting Attracts Record Numbers
  • HDV Discovery Celebrates 30th Anniversary
  • Focus on HBV Co-Infections
  • HBV Bill Re-introduced in Congress

acrobat documentFall 2007
Highlights Include:

  • Underestimation of Chronic Hepatitis B in the U.S.
  • HBV Could Be key to Missing Women
  • Patient Conference Highlights
  • Building the Ranks of Future Scientists

acrobat documentSummer 2007
Highlights Include:

  • Dr. Frank Chisari Honored with HBF Distinguished Scientist Award
  • Viral Load Predicts HCC Risk
  • Hepatitis Awareness Month Review
  • HBF Co-Sponsors Historic Library of Congress Symposium
  • New Public Health Research Department Launched

acrobat documentSpring 2007
Highlights Include:

  • Annual Report 2006
  • HBF Princeton Workshop Focuses on Early Detection of Liver Cancer
  • Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruch Blumberg Joins HBF
  • International HBV Meeting Highlights
  • New Medical and Scientific Leaders on HBF Board

Past Issues

acrobat documentFall 2006
Highlights Include:

  • HBV Treatment Guidelines Updated
  • Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center of Bucks County Opens
  • 2006 B-Informed Patient Conference Update
  • Comparison of HBV Drug Costs

acrobat documentSummer 2006
Highlights Include:

  • Viral Load- How Low Should We Go
  • Congressional Briefing on HBV kicks off
    Aim for the B Week
  • National Strategic Plan to Eliminate Viral Hepatitis Released

acrobat documentWinter 2006
Highlights Include:

  • Int'l HBV Meeting 2006
  • HBV Bill Reaches Congress
  • Hepatitis D Virus Affects Millions Worldwide
  • 2005 Donor List

acrobat documentFall 2005
Highlights Include:

  • Aim for the B Campaign
  • 2005 Patient Conference Highlights
  • Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research Update
  • Updated Drug Watch and Clinical Trials

acrobat documentSpring 2005
Highlights Include:

  • Entecavir Approved
  • Therapies for Liver Cancer
  • HBF 2005 Crystal Ball Celebration

acrobat documentWinter 2005
Highlights include:

  • HBF Opens New Research Institute
  • The State of HBV Research Funding
  • NIH Action Plan for Liver Disease Research
  • Donor List 2004

acrobat documentFall 2004
Highlights include:

  • HBF Partnership with Drexel University
  • 4th Annual B Informed Patient Conference Highlights
  • New HBF Research Training Program
  • Updated Drug Watch and HBF Clinical Trials

acrobat documentSpring 2004
Highlights include:

  • HBF Crystal Ball Celebration
  • New Treatment Guidelines
  • Children and Hepatitis B
  • HBV Drugs, One Size Doesn't Fit All

acrobat documentWinter 2004
Highlights include:

  • 9th Annual Princeton Workshop Meets in Hawaii
  • HBV Clinical Endpoints
  • NIH Action Plan for Liver Disease Research
  • HBV Patient Conference Goes West

acrobat documentFall 2003
Highlights include:

  • B-Informed 2003 Patient Conference in Review
  • Clevudine: Promising New Drug with Nowhere To Go
  • NIH Establishes the Liver Disease Research Branch
  • Impact of Hepatitis B on Families
  • New HBV Clinical Trials! 

acrobat documentSpring 2003
Highlights include:

  • Dr. So Talks about HBV and Liver Cancer
  • One Man's Story - Living with Liver Cancer
  • Upcoming Patient Conference 2003
  • Dr. Jay Hoofnagle Receives "Distinguished Scientist" Award
  • PKIDs Goes to China

acrobat documentWinter 2003
Highlights include:

  • HBF Receives $7.9 Million Grant 
  • 8th Annual Princeton Workshop
  • HBV in Pakistan
  • HBF Lab Searches for a Cure: Glucovirs or Alkovirs?

acrobat documentFall 2002
Highlights include:

  • 2nd Annual Patient Conference
  • HBV in India
  • HBF Lab Update
  • Adefovir Approved by FDA

acrobat documentSummer 2002
Highlights include:

  • HBF Crystal Ball Honorees 2002
  • HBV in Senegal and China
  • Visit Our New Bookstore!
  • HBV Clinical Trials

acrobat documentWinter 2002
Highlights include:

  • 7th Annual Princeton Workshop
  • AASLD Practice Guidelines for HBV
  • Therapeutic DNA Vaccines
  • Hepatitis B Book Bonanza
  • New Pediatric Hepatitis Report

acrobat documentFall 2001
Highlights include:

  • Lamivudine for Kids Approved
  • Princeton Workshop Surfs to Hawaii
  • Management of Chronic Hepatitis B
  • "Living with HBV: A Survivor's Guide"
  • HBF Website Wins Award

acrobat documentSpring 2001
Highlights include:

  • HBF 10th Anniversary Crystal Ball
  • 1st "B-Informed" Patient Conference Held at HBF
  • Meet Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruch Blumberg
  • 1st Online Patient Survey Results
  • Breakthrough Rx for Kids
  • Bruce Witte Distinguished Lecturer, John Gerin, Ph.D.

acrobat documentWinter 2001
Highlights include:

  • Princeton Workshop 2000: National HBV Research Agenda
  • NIH Workshop on Hepatitis B
  • Entecavir in Early Clinical Trials for Chronic HBV
  • Treatments Available for Children with HBV
  • HBF Announces New Chinese Chapter on its Website
  • Message from Our New President, Dr. Timothy Block

acrobat documentFall 2000
Highlights include:

  • Good Nutrition Can Enhance Liver Health
  • Oral Viral Proteins
  • 2000 Awards Celebration
  • 1st HBF Bruce Witte Research Fellow, Dr. Anand Mehta

acrobat documentSpring 2000
Highlights include:

  • The Battle Against HB: The Evolution of a Cure
  • How to Enroll in Clinical Trials
  • Speaking Personally...A Mother Reflects on the Effects of Hepatitis B on Her Family
  • 1st Bruce Witte Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Raymond Schinazi

acrobat documentWinter 2000
Highlights include:

  • 5th Annual Princeton Workshop
  • Gallery of Leaders Awards
  • Newborn HBV Vaccine Update

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