I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Thursday, October 6, 2005

New Hepatitis C Ad Campaign

There's a new ad campaign for hepatitis C that I saw in Harlem. The posters
say "If hepatitis C affected you on the outside like it does on the inside,
wouldn't you get treatment?" And there are pictures of people with bruised,
scarred, yellowish faces.