Since it's made of both a vegetable and animal fiber, the result is a lovely heathered yarn due to the way the fibers take the dyes. Chesapeake knits up at a worsted weight so it's ideal for knitting both adults and children's garments.
The 11 evaluable patients enrolled in the brain cancer safety trial received three infusions of vitamin C a week for 2 months followed by two infusions per week for 7 months while receiving standard care radiation and chemotherapy.
But hepatitis C can recur after a liver transplant. And the study also showed that this holds true for people with HIV. The hepatitis C virus came back in three of the six HIV patients who survived the liver transplant. One patient died from advanced liver disease and another from liver failure after rejection of the transplant.