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**HEPATITIS JOURNAL REVIEW: A Bi-Monthly Publication of the Hepatitis Support Project--April 25, 2006, Volume 3, Issue 7 by Liz Highleyman

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/news/newsRev/2006/HJR-3.7.html

In This Issue:

· Clinical Outcomes Match Trials

· Donor Mismatches Increase HCV Recurrence Risk

· Immunosuppressive Therapy Affects Transplant Outcomes

· Immune Response to HCV

**HCV ADVOCATE WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW:

A Review of HCV, HBV and HIV/HCV Coinfection Related News and Highlights

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/news/newsRev/2006/NewsRev-149.html

Week Ending: April 22nd, 2006 – In This Issue:

· Senator Halts Prison Care Bill

· $10m for Victims of Tainted Transfusions

· Organ Transplants Boom

· I Injected My Children with Hepatitis C'

· Jail Drug Programs Save Money – and Lives

· Haemophilia: The Ongoing Scandal

· Whites Fare Poorly with HIV and Hepatitis C

· Major Research Institute Leverages Scali Software in Quest of Hepatitis-C Virus Cure

· Metabasis Therapeutics Comments on Status of the Development of Pradefovir

· Age and Retransplant Urgency Determine Liver Retransplant Survival

· New Jersey Considers Bills to Curb HIV and Hepatitis C

· Trial to test Cangene's WinRho® SDF in hepatitis C patients

· Controversy over Call for Inquiry into NHS Hep C Infections

· Hepatitis C Vote Valid

· Get the 411 on Hepatitis

· 'Wait-and-See' Policy for Small Hepatocellular Cancer Nodes

· Lords Debate Blood Inquiry Calls

· AVI BioPharma Provides Update on Hepatitis C Virus Clinical Trial Status

· Schering-Plough Provides Update on Oral HCV Protease Inhibitor SCH 503034 Clinical Development Program for Hepatitis C

· Canada Man Donates Part of Liver to Total Stranger

· Transition Therapeutics Reports Positive Data from Hepatitis C Trial