Report from EASL; The European Association for the Study of the Liver Conference, Rotterdam, April 28-May 3, 2000 - Intro Report

Reports From EASL (European Association for the Study of the Liver)

Arrived this morning at Amsterdam Airport. You must take a transfer to Rotterdam. It's about a 45 minute taxi ride. AOL here stinks. Having a lot of trouble getting connected. The local AOL numbers don't work and getting connected through my home NY number is hit and miss and expensive. However, at first glance the city seems very nice. Room service seems to have only several types of ham sandwiches, but the room is nice. Of course there's no gym in the hotel. Since I didn't sleep on plane coming over I will try to catch some sleep before going out to see the city. Directly across from my hotel is a McDonald's.

By glancing at the program I saw several interesting presentations:

• Pegylated INTRON Sustained Response data
• Pegasys SR data
• 2 induction therapy presentations
• viral kinetics and high dosing

The conference starts tomorrow and reports will follow.

See NATAP's coverage of the Salvage Therapy Workshop
--Two new reports just posted: Therapy Interruptions: Update from Veronica Miller
--Virological and pharmacokinetic rationale for a new salvage regimen: amprenavir (600mg)/saquinavir (800mg)/ritonavir (100mg) twice daily

If you haven't checked out the NATAP Retrovirus Reports yet, there are over 50 reports with guest writers.

bye for now from windmill & tulip country
Jules