Jonel Trebicka, Tilman Sauerbruch, Jörg Heller – 25 September 2007

Ira M. Jacobson, Robert S. Brown, Bradley Freilich, Nezam Afdhal, Paul Y. Kwo, John Santoro, Scott Becker, Adil E. Wakil, David Pound, Eliot Godofsky, Robert Strauss, David Bernstein, Steven Flamm, Mary Pat Pauly, Pabak Mukhopadhyay, Louis H. Griffel, Clifford A. Brass – 25 September 2007 – This prospective, multicenter, community‐based and academic‐based, open‐label, investigator‐initiated, U.S. study evaluated efficacy and safety of pegylated interferon (PEG‐IFN) alfa‐2b plus a flat or weight‐based dose of ribavirin (RBV) in adults with chronic hepatitis C.

Leif E. Sander, Christian Trautwein, Christian Liedtke – 25 September 2007

Anna Alisi, Matilde Marcellini, Valerio Nobili – 25 September 2007

Daniel Zamora‐Valdés, Misael Uribe, Nahum Méndez‐Sánchez – 25 September 2007

Thierry Thévenot, Vincent Di Martino, Françoise Lunel‐Fabiani – 25 September 2007

Paul S. Haber, Geoffrey W. McCaughan – 25 September 2007

Emanuel F. Petricoin, Zobair M. Younossi – 25 September 2007

Giovanni B. Gaeta, Tommaso Stroffolini, Antonina Smedile, Grazia Niro, Alfonso Mele – 25 September 2007

Jane Collier – 20 September 2007 – Osteomalacia rarely occurs in adult patients with chronic liver disease despite a low serum vitamin D level being reported in up to two‐thirds of patients with cirrhosis. In contrast, osteoporosis, which increases the risk of vertebral fractures, occurs in 12%‐55% of patients with cirrhosis. Although the prevalence is probably falling, as shown by a fall from 57%‐26% in patients with biliary disease requiring liver transplantation over the last 2 decades, it still accounts for significant patient morbidity.