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Advocacy

Smilin' Sandi's homepage providing Education, Support and Patient Advocacy worldwide since 1997.

Pretty cool site, with massive amounts of great information ... like us, on their links page. Their hep news pages are up-to-date, and they cover hep B & more.

Hepatitis Foundation International

Hep C Association

Hep C Out of Bounds

This is a pretty cool site. Really nice looking, some fun games, and they have chats every night.

Hep C MO

This is a Christian-based organization with some active folks doin' all kinds of cool things. Based in Missouri - thus, MO - they're set on serving multi-cultures. Little play on words there.... They also have a tele-chat on Tuesday nights.

LiverHope

These MN folks put on one helluva hepfest every August (usually right before Sturgis) - see? They also do some excellent educational forums in which the information's OBJECTIVE.

Educational Resources

Dr. Bennet Cecil

a courageous physician, & the editor's personal favorite -- he tells it "straight up" and his patient base is bikers & blue collar people ... not only that, on his site, you'll find a link to us! We love this guy. ... a real dragon slayer.

Digestive Disease Library, Johns Hopkins University

Thanks again to Johns Hopkins University for permission to use the HCV replication flash movie.

Health On the Net Foundation

A non-governmental organization that brings together docs, scientists & the like that helps ya sift through the crap to get to the credible health info on the internet, based on 7 principles of the HON code ... credible info like Hep C Straightup ... hell yea!

Healthy Hepper

A great site, particularly if you're looking for info about alternative or complementary treatments; although some of it is for sale. Also has a very extensive database of hep info, & "Anna's Uncensored Hep C Search Engine" - we like "uncensored," but i'll be g-d damned if i can find us in there.

Healing Well

a site on diseases, disorders & Chronic illness

Hepatitis C Resources for Vets

... & all of us -- some useful stuff here.

HCV Advocate

TONS of information from these San Francisco fellas. I like the glossary the best.

Hepatitis Neighborhood

good support site - especially if you're on treatment & if you're meds are delivered by the pharmacy that created & maintains this site. Includes chat opportunities, too.

Prescription Drug Information, Side Effects and Interactions

This is a pretty cool online PDR. Why's it cool? ... cuz they got a link to the Straightup on their site.

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Currently-available Treatments

Pegasys*

Pegylated Interferon & Ribavirin, made by Hoffman LaRoche

Peg-Intron*

Pegylated Interferon & Ribavirin, made by Schering-Plough

Infergen*

Consensus Interferon, made by Amgen, but bought & sold by Intermune

FDA

This is the U.S. Government's Food & Drug Administration. If you're checking out treatment options, put the name of the drug you're considering in their search engine AND the word "safety." You should find some documents with all the nasty data that's come back since they were approved - info that you're definitely entitled to.

*Links to clinics and organizations in this listing are NOT to be construed as an endorsement or recommendation by Hep C Straightup. It's just a listing.

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