New HCV Therapies

[newleaf09]

Got this via email from Clinical Care Options.  Free registration at site (which is mostly intended for physicians).


CCO ANNUAL UPDATE
Hepatitis Annual Update 2009


To: CCO member

From: Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, MD, PhD
Université Paris XII
Créteil, France

Subject: Update on Investigational HCV Agents

Click to Access: Educational Module


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I encourage you to review this educational module I have authored as part of CCO's Hepatitis Annual Update 2009. In this module, I discuss how insights into the virology of HCV have unraveled several targets for potential novel therapeutics.
Select topics include:
• Novel Interferons
• Alternatives to Ribavirin
• Overview of the HCV Lifecycle
• Inhibitors of HCV:
o Entry and Fusion
o Polyprotein Translation
o Polyprotein Processing
o Replication
o Assembly and Release
• Other Investigational Agents
To review this module, click here.
This CME/CE-certified module is located online at:
http://clinicaloptions.com/Hepatitis/Annual%20Updates/2009%20Annual%20Update.aspx

[annieCinMD]

I joined this site. It has lots of good stuff. You can download Powerpoint presentations for a lot of the articles. It's a little bit technical, but for the most part understandable. I haven't read this last one yet...trying to get through my last couple days of tx. Not feeling too good.

[banarep]

thanks for the link.