>>Oddly, I've never actually sat down to read the whole book. FWIW, there's some evidence that when they came over from Amsterdam in the early 1800's, the family name was Schreiber. That's actually interesting because we have another branch whose name is Safra, which is Hebrew for scribe, aka Schreiber.

You ought to meet my sister- amongst other gongs she got a Theology degree majoring in Old Testament and can yarn with old Rabbis in antique languages. ;-)

>>Yeah. Living here in an area with four medical schools, including the powerhouse that is Penn Medicine, we hear about lots of great stuff coming down the pike. And a friend is a researcher on hepatitis and tells us that there's a strong link between that (one of them anyway) and liver cancer.

Yep. Secondary liver cancer can come from lots of places but primary liver cancer has associations with prior inflammation and unless people have a particularly savvy physician, often it isn't detected until too late. There's a strong association with hemochromatosis that now has a genetic test so those at risk can avoid the inflammation and reduce their long-term risk. Price for the test has fallen dramatically, about $200 now. This is quite a good example of the impact of modern medicine these days and a reason why some people think that vaccination and other initiatives are lifestyle choices: the sense of risk is gone thanks to years of effort by academics and Big Pharma. Against this you have Witch Doctors and others making all sorts of outlandish claims.