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The following items have been posted to www.hcvadvocate.org and www.hbvadvocate.org –

** HCV Advocate’s Medical Writers’ Circle: Hepatitis C in Drug Users: What To Do? by Sylvestre, MD. In this article, Dr. Sylvestre discusses the current clinical information about treating active injection drug users and provides strategies for addressing addiction issues and for engaging clients in their own HCV medical care.

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/hcsp/hcsp_pdf/IDU.pdf

**HCV ADVOCATE WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW: A Review of HCV, HBV and HIV/HCV Coinfection Related News and Highlights

For Week Ending: May 6th, 2006

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/news/newsRev/2006/NewsRev-151.html

In this issue:

· Scavello Promotes Hepatitis Awareness

· New Oral Polymerase Inhibitor Shows Promising Results in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients

· Coley Pharmaceutical Group Presents Data from Clinical Study of ACTILON for Hepatitis C at the European Association for the Study of the Liver Meeting

· A Need for Needles: Addicts Flood State's Four Exchange Programs

· Tainted Blood Victims 'Were Not Informed

· Liver Transplants Can Be Successful in HIV Patients with Hepatitis B

· Human Genome Updates Albuferon Data

· ViroPharma Announces Presentation of Pharmacokinetic Data From HCV-796 Phase 1a Study

· Senate Battle Set on Sale of Syringes

· FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Nexavar for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

· Hepatitis C Patients Benefit from Combination of VX-950 and Pegylated Interferon

· The Ticking Time Bomb of Liver Disease

· Vaccine for Hepatitis C in Clinical Trial

· Chronic Hepatitis in Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients

· Community Health Centers Urge Screening and Awareness as National Hepatitis Awareness Month Kicks Off

· Hospital Mishap May Have Exposed 300 Patients to HIV or Hepatitis

· Idenix Obtains Promising Hepatitis Trial Data

· XTL Biopharm:Dosing Begins in Phase 1 Hepatitis C Trial

· Employer Pays $24,000 for Hepatitis C Firing

· Hepatitis C Awareness Tour Stops at Rooster’s Roadhouse in Alameda, CA