How to get Abstracts From Liver Meeting 2008 (AASLD)

[jmjm530]

Here's how to access the abstracts at Liver Meeting 2008.  A list of all abstracts under the heading of "viral hepatitis" will follow.  Not sure if late breaking abstracts are included.

(1) Go to: http://www.aasld.org/Pages/Default.aspx
(2) Register (We're all Hep C researchers, aren't we)
(3) Sign in
(4) click on "Liver meeting 2008"
(5) click on "Abstract and Presenters" (left bar)
(6) click on "View Itinerary Planner"
(7) click on "Search" (left bar)
(8) Fill out Search forum as appropriate. For the global search below, I simply went to "categories" and chose "viral hepatitis" from the drop down menu. I left the other fields blank. For more specific searches -- such as by sub topics or author - fill out appropriate fields.

[jmjm530]

Here's a better link to those Quick Links from the hc advocate web site:
http://tinyurl.com/5eeams

[jmjm530]

I think this is pretty much it except for late breaking presentations which usually end up on the site near the end.

This site here usually has summaries of key articles but they don't appear up yet -- maybe in a few days:

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/

Also some quick links here from another site:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5eeams

[NashPred]

Thanks for the info jmjm.

I know the meeting is not even over yet....but does anyone know when, if, or where the full summary of these presentations will be made available?

[Rockerforlife]

I have have of herbal "extracts" but this is even too much for me

[portann]

Thank you, Jim. It was easier for me to plant two hundred spring bulbs today than it will be to wade through our new curriculum.

Quick question about something I noticed, unrelated to the conference study papers themselves but to the current list of substances harmful to the liver, as posted on your link in one of the tabs. It had a rather odd conclusion about the Roche COBAS TaqMan and TaqMan 48 Analyzers, that  the "FDA considers that the probability of life threatening consequences is likely to occur by the malfunctioning of these devices."


"Drug Alerts
AASLD » Your Liver » Drug Alerts » Roche COBAS TaqMan and TaqMan 48 Analyzers
Roche COBAS TaqMan and TaqMan 48 Analyzers  
FDA and Roche Molecular Systems
FDA and Roche Molecular Systems notified healthcare professionals of a Class 1 recall of the Roche COBAS TaqMan and TaqMan 48 Analyzer, used for the measurement of hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses and for other in-house diagnostic testing. The analyzers produced falsely elevated values due to the improper seating of a fiber optic cable in the analyzer instrument. FDA considers that the probability of life threatening consequences is likely to occur by the malfunctioning of these devices.



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Is this old news and now insignificant due to the necessary correction?

And now to the more serious matter at hand, picking a study to read.....any hot ones recommended by those more diligent than I've been? Shall I just cut to the highlights or do my own slogging through the brush? See you in a week....:)

    

[jmjm530]

Thanks for the heads up about not needing to register to gain access to the abstracts.

For some reason I thought you needed to, but then again the path to those abstracts is not exactly intuitive so maybe I didn't find it the first time without registering.

As to the doc's -- just because there name is on a paper doesn't mean they will physically be there to present. I'm sure there's a list of presenters somewhere.

For anyone interested in just a couple of the abstracts, you can probably just plug the abstract number into the search page athough I don't have it in front of me now.

-- Jim