21.   The histologic diagnosis of chronic hepatitis was made according to the standard criteria.

22.   Similarly, there are mild disturbances only of acute phase reactants in chronic viral hepatitis.

23.   And milk thistle, a tall herb with prickly leaves and a milky sap, has shown encouraging results with chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and other liver conditions.

24.   Chronic hepatitis C is an insidious infection, progressing at a slow rate without physical signs in most patients for the first two or three decades after infection.

25.   Earlier-stage efforts include a possible vaccine against HIV, chronic hepatitis and a virus linked to certain birth defects and to blindness in people with AIDS.

26.   The Johns Hopkins team focused on liver toxicity in part because of the growing problem of AIDS patients who also harbor the virus that causes chronic hepatitis C.

27.   The only treatments for chronic hepatitis C that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration involve injections of interferon.

28.   The vast majority of people with chronic hepatitis C carry the virus indefinitely, apparently with few ill effects.

29.   Two years ago, her chronic active hepatitis C went into remission through alternative medicine, she says.

30.   A combination of two virus-fighting drugs has proved considerably more effective against chronic hepatitis C infections than the standard single medicine.