Feb 16, 2023
Recording available!
Online discussion for the HBV community on scientific progress in Europe towards a cure featured TherVacB’s European HBV Patient Registry
On 24th November 2021 the International Coalition for the Elimination of HBV, ICE-HBV, in partnership with Liver Patients International opened the floor to an online discussion of updates on HBV Cure Research in Europe. As part of the „B_Aware» awareness campaign about hepatitis B prevention, infection, therapy and cure research, TherVacB team member Prof. Dr. Markus Cornberg, Medical School Hannover, Germany, introduced the European HBV Patient Registry for patients living with chronic hepatitis.

Over 1.5 hours, leading scientists, researchers and clinicians have been discussing latest HBV cure-related research and scientific topics with patients, people living with HBV and the HBV community, engaging in a lively discussions with attendees.
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Oct 12, 2022
An online lecture explores ethical benefits and challenges of social media recruitment for clinical studies.
Recruiting patients for clinical studies through social media yields ethical benefits and challenges. On 24th November 2022 at 15:00 CET, TherVacB experts in biomedical ethics, empirical research, social media, AI and digital health, Bettina M. Zimmermann and Theresa Willem, will open the floor to a brief discussion of benefits and challenges of social media recruitment for clinical studies from an ethical perspective. They will introduce a checklist for researchers to determine the suitability of social media recruitment when designing a study. In a Q&A session, they will be open to further discussing questions and comments from healthcare professionals, recruitment operators such as digital study, nurse researchers or young investigators in clinical settings.
Please register here to join the Zoom session: https://cutt.ly/TherVacB-Lecture_Register

In this lecture, Dr. Bettina M. Zimmermann and Theresa Willem, M.A., will introduce findings of their empirical and literary research carried out at the Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Germany, published in a first article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research in May and September 2022.
Nov 11, 2021
Haben Sie Fragen zur Virushepatitis?
Sprechen Sie im Rahmen einer speziellen Telefonsprechstunde zur Hepatitis B direkt mit Prof. Dr. Markus Cornberg, Erstautor der aktuellen Leitlinie zur Hepatitis B und Oberarzt an der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover, einem der «TherVacB»-Prüfzentren.
Prof. Cornberg wird alle Fragen zur Hepatitis B beantworten – von „Was sind mögliche Wege der Ansteckung?“ oder «Trägt die gesetzliche Krankenkasse in Deutschland ein Screening auf Hepatitis B?» bis hin zu „Was bedeuten meine Leberwerte?“ und „Wie muss die Erkrankung behandelt werden?“.
Die Telefonsprechstunde zur Hepatitis B ist Teil der „B_Aware-Kampagne“ zur Aufklärung über Hepatitis B und findet anlässlich des Deutschen Lebertages am 16. November 2021 zwischen 16:00 und 18:00 Uhr statt. Sie erreichen Herrn Prof. Cornberg unter 01805 – 45 00 60. Für ein Telefonat fallen Verbindungskosten in Höhe von € 0,14/Min. aus dem deutschen Festnetz und max. € 0,42/Min. aus dem Mobilfunk an.
Weitere Informationen zur Lebergesundheit anlässlich des 22. Deutschen Lebertages finden Sie bei unserem Kooperationspartner, der Deutschen Leberstifung.