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Hepatitis SA maintains a specialist library containing:

  • Books, reports and kits
  • Audio CDs, DVDs, videos and CDROMs
  • Journals and newsletters.

Membership

Anyone is free to browse but only members may borrow hard copy items. Membership is free, and all members of Hepatitis SA are automatically members of the library.

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Finding what you want

All materials are listed in the online catalogues. You may wish to:

  • Search the complete catalogue for all resources.
  • Search the e-catalogue for free-to-access online resources.

New resource highlights for April 2013

Restoring the Balance: The effect of arts participation on wellbeing & health, Voluntary Arts Network, Edinburgh. In our library: 5.7 DEV 28. Also  online (see ”All resources’, below, for link)
Milk Thistle Drug May Help Control HCV Replication after Liver Transplant, HIVandHepatitis.com, San Francisco, 2013, Available online (see ‘All resources’, below, for link) Liver Good Life: 4 steps to take control of your liver,
British Liver Trust, London.
Available online (see ‘All resources’, below, for link)
LiverTox Database,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda  2013. 
Available online (see ‘All resources’, below, for link)
Infectious Disease Virtual Congress(YouTube), John Hopkins Uni, Baltimore, 2013.Available online(see ‘All resources’, below, for link) Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework 2012: SA, AIHW, Canberra, 2012.In our library: 74 AIH 86, also online (see ‘All resources’, below, for link)

All resources added to the library in April 2013…

 

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Unpolished Gem

Unpolished Gem, Alice Pung, Call no: 7.5; 011; PUN

Unpolished Gem is the next best thing to hearing an immigrant story first hand from a friend.

Alice Pung writes with a humour and candour that makes an absorbing and easy read. This gem of a book reflects the Australian immigrant experience across cultural and age differences. Continue reading

From Lawns to Lunches

So, you’ve been told that you need to have a healthy diet—eat lots of vegies and fruits. But those perishables don’t always stay fresh, and they’re not that cheap these days, either.Well, you can have your own greengrocer right at your doorstep—on your (former) lawn or pavement, in fact. In Lawns into Lunch, Jill Finnane tells the stories of 19 people who turned their backyards, front lawns, pavements and nature strips into sources of succulent feasts.

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Fatigue in HCV Infection: A Review

Fatigue is an important, but often neglected, symptom of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Fatigue is thought to impact on well-being and mood in patients with HCV, but this remains to be fully established. To better understand the role of fatigue in HCV, Doug Mellors and Linda McInnes undertook a review of literature published on the subject from 1989 to 2011.

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