Past Issues

Fall 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

Summer 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

Winter 2006
Highlights Include:

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

Fall 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

Spring 2005
Highlights Include:

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

Winter 2005
Highlights include:

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

Fall 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

Spring 2004
Highlights include:

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

Winter 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

Fall 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! 

Spring 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
  

Winter 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?

Fall 2002
Highlights include:

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

Summer 2002
Highlights include:

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

Winter 2002
Highlights include:

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

Fall 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

Spring 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.

Winter 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

Fall 2000
Highlights include:

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

Spring 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

Winter 2000
Highlights include:

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

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