Contents

• Issue 49 September 2010
• Why Are We Waiting?
• An Ongoing Relationship
• Hep C-Free, and Feeling Good
• Hepatitis Nursing at the FMC
• Beyond Magill
• The CHI Study
• James Nash House
• Treatment Success Test
• Seventy-five Percent
• Promises & Power

Editorial

This issue takes a closer look at two inter-linked topics. First of all, we examine the current state of liver disease nursing in SA, and what the future might hold. Secondly, we talk to some of the people involved in liver disease treatment at the Flinders Medical Centre. (In our next issue, we hope to follow this up by talking to some of the staff in similar roles at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.)

We also look at the possibilities of an exciting new medication in HCV treatment, telaprevir (see here), and talk about its future application with Rosalie Altus of the FMC (see here).

Finally, thank you to everyone who took the trouble to fill out the readers’ survey. Unfortunately we did not get as many responses as we hoped. To get a better idea of our readership and membership, we have set up an online survey form. Please take a few minutes to fill it out at http://bit.ly/hccn_survey and you will help to ensure that the Hepatitis C Community News is the magazine that you want to read.