Source: Karpe Communications
                      
Best-Selling `Triumph Over Hepatitis C' Book to be Translated,
                        Published in China, Korea and Japan
                      LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) 
                        -- "Triumph Over Hepatitis C," the best-selling 
                        book that details an alternative treatment program for 
                        Hepatitis C sufferers and challenges the generally accepted 
                        and sole treatment regimen currently available from the 
                        U.S. medical establishment for treating the disease, will 
                        be translated and published in China, Korea and Japan, 
                        author and publisher Lloyd Wright has announced today. 
                      
                      Wright, who in the book recounts the medical treatment 
                        plan that proved nearly fatal for him and then documents 
                        his subsequent development of an herbal-based regimen 
                        that has completely cleared the disease from his body, 
                        self-published "Triumph Over Hepatitis C" and 
                        its companion book, "Hepatitis C Free," in 1999.  
                        Since that time, the books have consistently ranked at 
                        or near the top of various best-seller lists in their 
                        specialty health-care category. 
                      With growing attention focused on the disease in the 
                        United States, where up to some 15 million Americans are 
                        believed to now be infected, and a growing awareness of 
                        the endemic proportions the disease has taken in Asia 
                        since the first test for it was developed in 1991, Wright 
                        expects to see a sharp increase in both book sales and 
                        for his herbal treatment products. 
                      "But what's most important is that those diagnosed 
                        with the disease know that there is an alternative to 
                        the debilitating and ineffective interferon therapy now 
                        prescribed by the medical community," said Wright.  
                        "I know firsthand how interferon therapy does not 
                        work -- it nearly killed me -- and, likewise, I know, 
                        as do thousands of others I have documented, what does 
                        work." 
                      Desperate sufferers of the disease, many in the chronic- 
                        and end-stages of it, have turned to Wright's books and 
                        his products to successfully treat the disease.  With 
                        the translation of the books in Asia, and the much greater 
                        acceptance of herbal products to treat medical problems 
                        in that region of the world, Wright should be a popular 
                        and credible authority. 
                      Published by Atrium Publishing of Canada, the books will 
                        be promoted by Wright during a series of speaking engagements.  
                        Dates for the translation and book tour were not yet available. 
                      
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                        Keith Karpe
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