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• Holidays and Hepatitis B: Treat Your Liver Right

      The holiday season is here! November and December are full with holidays like Diwali, Canadian Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and the New Year just to name a few. This time is often filled with love, happiness, and delicious food. If you or a family member is living with hepatitis B, it is important to eat mindfully during this festive time. Eating healthy is not always a possible option - not with delicious smells filling your kitchen, but you can make healthier choices! Here is a list of action items you can do to help maintain a healthy liver during the holidays: You can contribute a healthy dish - something filled with lean meats, hearty vegetables,  and is low in sodium. Try your best to avoid alcohol and go for drinks with lower amounts of added sugar. Coffee has been associated with improvement in liver enzymes! You can bring your own non-alcoholic beverage like a sparkling flavored drink. Choose fiber-rich foods like beets, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and beans - your plate should look colorful! Click on the veggies for some delicious and healthy recipes! Stay active - take a walk with your family/someone in your COVID social circle or do a free online exercise video. Most importantly, do not feel guilty. Try your best to make healthy choices and not over-indulge, but do not beat yourself up if you do - your next meal can be healthier! Remember that everything you consume is filtered through your liver; your liver never gets a break! The lifestyle tips listed above may seem simple, but they can have a large, positive impact on your health. Sticking to a regular healthy routine even during the holiday season will make it easier to continue those habits all year long! You can also check out our healthy liver tips to see what other actions can be taken to protect your liver. Author: Evangeline Wang, Program Coordinator Contact Information: info@hepb.org

  http://www.hepb.org/blog/holidays-hepatitis-b-treat-liver-right/
• Fighting the Doom and Gloom: It Takes a Team

  By Anu Hosangadi People generally think liver cancer is non-treatable and non-curable. But that perception needs to change. Diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer have improved so much in the past 20 years that it can be cured if caught early and managed by an experienced health care team. Liver Cancer Connect’s "Fighting the Doom and Gloom" series explains how the right treatment plan  and teamwork offer the best chances for a cure.  More Treatment Options with Early Detection Previously, we talked about how liver cancer can be prevented, and how screening and surveillance save lives by detecting the cancer early. Early detection means more treatment options and a greater chance of treatment success. What Are the Options? Surgery (also called resection) is the treatment of choice if the cancer is detected early, has not spread, and the liver is working well. Liver transplantation— where the diseased liver is replaced with a healthy liver—has advanced remarkably in the past decade, thanks to earlier detection of liver cancer, improved surgical techniques and antiviral treatment, and post-transplant care. But there is a waiting list for people needing liver transplants. For people on a transplant waiting list, or those who cannot undergo surgery, other so-called localized therapies are available. These include ablation using radiofrequency, microwave, or laser procedures, and transarterial chemoembolization or radioembolization.Some of these therapies can also be combined. Chemotherapy has not been very successful against liver cancer and has been largely replaced by targeted therapies. These therapies block specific chemical pathways that the tumor needs for growth. One such targeted drug, sorafenib, is the first FDA-approved oral drug to treat liver tumors that cannot be surgically removed. What’s in the Pipeline? Many other treatments are being developed for liver cancer. Liver Cancer Connect’s Drug Watch regularly updates its list of therapies

  http://www.hepb.org/blog/fighting-the-doom-and-gloom-it-takes-a-team/
• Vlog: Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill

  Join Michaela Jackson for A Day in the Life of a Public Health Coordinator as she takes you behind the scenes of Advocacy Day - a day of speaking to Congress members and their staffers about hepatitis B. In this episode, participants visit Capitol Hill to ask Congress to support funding for Hepatitis B research and to raise awareness on the topic. Advocacy Day takes place the day before the Hep B United Summit.

  http://www.hepb.org/blog/vlog-advocacy-day-capitol-hill/
• A Day in the Life of Program Managers: #justB Workshop

  Welcome to a Day in the Life of Program Managers! Join Catherine Freeland, MPH, and Rhea Racho, MPAff for a day in their work life and the justB workshop. "#justB: Real People Sharing Real Stories of Hepatitis B" is collaboration between the Hepatitis B Foundation, Story Center, and Association of Asian Pacific Health Organizations (AAPCHO) to share the stories of people affected by hepatitis B. The episode highlights the workshop and process our storytellers go through to develop their impactful stories. Music Clouds - Joakim Karud WEBSITE: http://www.hepb.org FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/hepbfoundation TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/hepbfoundation INSTAGRAM: @hepbfoundation SNAPCHAT: @hepbfoundation

  http://www.hepb.org/blog/day-life-program-managers-justb-workshop/
• Vlog: What Do We Do at a Hep B Screening?

  Join Kristine Alarcon, MPH for A Day in the Life of a Public Health Coordinator to learn about some of the activities we at the Hepatitis B Foundation take part in! [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hn4D-Tap9A[/embedyt] This episode highlights our events for our local program, Hep B United Philadelphia, during January 2018. We show you the "behind-the-scenes" of a hepatitis B screening event.

  http://www.hepb.org/blog/vlog-hep-b-screening/