Living With Hepatitis B: A Survivor's Guide

Univ. of Colorado, Denver. Consumer text covers the nature of the disease and its effects on the body, how to recognize early warning symptoms, what to do if you get infected, the HBV vaccine, coping with emotional effects, and how to avoid getting infected. Softcover.

Gregory T. Everson, MD, FACP, one of the country's leading hepatologists, is Professor of Medicine and Director of Hepatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has won numerous awards, including the National Institutes of Health Clinical Investigator Award and the American College of Physicians Teaching and Research Scholarship. He counsels hundreds of hepatitis patients, directs the University of Colorado's Program in Liver Disease, and advises physicians throughout Colorado Hedy Weinberg is an award-winning writer and essayist whose work has appeared in such prestigious publications as The Washington Post, Senior Edition USA, The Denver Post, Bon Appetit, and New Choices. Diagnosed with hepatitis in 1993, she brings to the reader personal understanding of how patients feel and what they want and need to know