Sometimes, doing the right thing is more important than profits, a lesson that Malden Mills learned firsthand. When the factory burned down in 1995 just two weeks before Christmas, production halted and employees assumed they'd be out of work until the factory was rebuilt. But CEO Aaron Feuerstein extended the employees 90 days at full pay, as well as 180 days with benefits at a cost of $25 million to Malden Mills. After the factory was rebuilt and all of the displaced workers were rehired, cooperation and productivity reached a new high, with 40% more business, 95% customer and employee retention, and a production increase from 130,000 to 200,000 yards per week. However, since then, Malden Mills has been to bankruptcy court three times, with much of the debt tied to the rebuild of the factory. Feuerstein made employees happy, to be sure, but business students should study this case to consider whether bold philanthropic actions will pay off in the end.

21 Hepatitis C (HCV): if results from the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) examination are inconclusive, what does this mean? Should further investigations be undertaken and, if so, will there be a risk of chronicity?

22 In a patient with hepatitis C and autoimmune hepatitis, can corticosteroids be prescribed for the autoimmune hepatitis?

23 We were told that the more vascular a structure is, the more antigen (HLA/blood groups) matching is needed for transplantation, e.g. cornea transplant needs no matching. However, the liver is a very vascular organ; I don't know why liver transplantation needs blood group matching only but renal transplantation needs much more HLA matching.

24 About steatohepatitis: please give me more information about the occurrence of cirrhosis in such patients (non-alcoholic) and is there any role and indication for lipotropic agents and hypocholesterolaemic drugs?

25 I am working on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) but I did not find anything regarding it. Can you tell me about its relationship with lipids?

26 Is NASH a valid term or not and what manifestation has it?

27 Is terlipressin better in controlling variceal bleeding than somatostatin?

28 Why is there a hyperdynamic circulation in cirrhosis?

29 Why is there an increased level of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in patients with cirrhosis?

30 Cirrhosis of liver is reversible according to your book. What is the progress and when will we be able to counteract the 'tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases' (TIMPs) and thus save the lives of our patients?