1. Web alert

   News Pages: 1 - 2

2. Literature alert

   • R. Sidney Smith

   Abstract Pages: 3 - 5

3. Clinical Trials Report

   • Bruce R. Bacon

   BriefCommunication Pages: 6 - 6

4. Pruritus in chronic liver disease: Mechanisms and treatment

   • Nora V. Bergasa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 10 - 16

5. Guidelines for stopping therapy in chronic hepatitis C

   • Mark W. Russo
   • Michael W. Fried

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 21

6. Fat, diabetes, and liver injury in chronic hepatitis C

   • Vlad Ratziu
   • Jean-Baptiste Trabut
   • Thierry Poynard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 22 - 29

7. Controversies in liver biopsy: Who, where, when, how, why?

   • Lawrence S. Friedman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 30 - 36

8. Hepatocellular carcinoma: Updates in primary prevention

   • Will J. Fecht Jr
   • Alex S. Befeler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 43

9. Screening for hemochromatosis: Patients with liver disease, families, and populations

   • Sumedha P. Galhenage
   • Charlie H. Viiala
   • John K. Olynyk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 44 - 51

10. Diagnosis and treatment of cholangiocarcinoma

    • Kirsten Muri Boberg
    • Erik Schrumpf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 52 - 59

11. New concepts of the pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease lead to novel treatments

    • Charles S. Lieber

    OriginalPaper Pages: 60 - 65

12. Chronic hepatitis C in african americans and other minority groups

    • Jaquelyn Fleckenstein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 66 - 70

13. Advances in alcoholic liver disease

    • Zhenyuan Song
    • Swati Joshi-Barve
    • Craig J. McClain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 76

14. New therapies for chronic hepatitis C virus infection

    • Anouk Dev
    • Keyur Patel
    • John G. McHutchison

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 86