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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by gsnedders »

tjohns wrote: post #331
iamflimflam1 wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to pile into the - this is not true. But it's not true. We get regular bowel cancer screening - you get it every 2 years once you hit 50 - https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/bowel-cancer-screeni... And there are also regular health checks available once you hit 40 - https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/nhs-health-check/

From a US perspective, even this seems wild to me. I've always been told that at least an annual physical exam with bloodwork is highly recommended as the standard of care for adults of all ages. Not everyone chooses to get them, of course. But ACA insurance plans here offer at least one annual physical exam free of charge (considered preventative care).

There’s a decent amount of public health research that suggests that annual physical exams don’t actually have a large impact on health.

In the US case specifically, I always wonder how much of the benefit is just “here’s a free appointment with a doctor once a year”.

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by nephihaha »

thebruce87m wrote: post #256
nephihaha wrote: post #149

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Most of the Scottish border is fairly physically obvious, unlike Wales (although the Severn bridge is). Tens of thousands of people live on islands other than Britain and Ireland. Much of Scotland is not even considered UK mainland by delivery firms, even major places such as Perth.

Really? Perth? You can go on uninterrupted 70mph roads from London to Perth.

Some of them don't consider Perth to be part of mainland UK for delivery purposes. It is one of the major arguments against private parcel delivery... They'll either end up with poste restante in major cities or stop delivering to rural areas entirely. (Perth is one of the bigger places in Scotland after the four major cities and not even in the Highlands.)

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by nephihaha »

alistairSH wrote: post #184
nephihaha wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the Scottish border is fairly physically obvious, unlike Wales (although the Severn bridge is). Tens of thousands of people live on islands other than Britain and Ireland. Much of Scotland is not even considered UK mainland by delivery firms, even major places such as Perth.

What? Perth isn't considered part of the mainland? How is that possible? My family is from Perthshire (Blairgowrie) and I've visited a bunch. It's definitely part of the island!!! I can understand Lewis and Harris or the Shetlands (they're separate islands without bridge links), but Perth doesn't make much sense. And I would have assumed Skye was considered "mainland" as well, at least now that there's a bridge.

Some delivery firms don't consider substantial parts of mainland Scotland to be "UK mainland". They charge extra. That has been the case for some business deliveries and even flower deliveries for a while.

There was a controversy about Perth in this regard a while back. I'm not even talking about Blairgowrie or Dunkeld or outlying places but someone trying to get deliveries to an industrial estate within the city of Perth itself.

The way things are going, maybe only the Central Belt will get preferential delivery fees.

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by what »

iamflimflam1 wrote: post #298
nly wrote: post #146

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Crazy how different healthcare is in different countries. In the UK once you've had your childhood vaccinations it's entirely possible you'd simply never see a doctor again in your life until you're ready for your prostate exam in older life. There are no regular checkups or preventative care on the NHS for mid life adults unless you're proactive

I don't want to pile into the - this is not true. But it's not true. We get regular bowel cancer screening - you get it every 2 years once you hit 50 - https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/bowel-cancer-screeni... And there are also regular health checks available once you hit 40 - https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/nhs-health-check/

That’s exactly what they said?

> it's entirely possible you'd simply never see a doctor again in your life until you're ready for your prostate exam in older life

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by CoastalCoder »

alpinisme wrote: post #222
1234letshaveatw wrote: post #216

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Interesting, my insurers, through my employers, have always required a annual physical

Required in what way? Better coverage (or lower rates) if you do it? Or is it literally no coverage if you don’t?

Maybe they meant life insurers, not health insurers?

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by teiferer »

Aurornis wrote: post #187
nly wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crazy how different healthcare is in different countries. In the UK once you've had your childhood vaccinations it's entirely possible you'd simply never see a doctor again in your life until you're ready for your prostate exam in older life. There are no regular checkups or preventative care on the NHS for mid life adults unless you're proactive

> In the UK once you've had your childhood vaccinations it's entirely possible you'd simply never see a doctor again in your life until you're ready for your prostate exam in older life. It's entirely possible to do this in the US, too, but it's not the default path. I know some people who think it's a point of pride to brag that they haven't been to a doctor in 20 years. I know other people who never miss their annu…

> The US approach to healthcare is varied and confusing to outsiders

Is it? If find it to be very much in line with the "personal freedom above all else" which permeates US culture.

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by frollogaston »

wowczarek wrote: post #20
kandros wrote: post #7

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This is actually a good idea for a HN dataset toy: replace all plausibly confusable words in HN headlines with the names of programming languages.

Hepatitis C sounds like a dialect of C

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by enaaem »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #101
MoltenMan wrote: post #88

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I'm not a trump fan, but the antivax train has nothing to do with him. (Evidence: Canada is doing even worse then us when it comes to measles). If we want to fix this problem (we do), the first step is to recognize the actual problem, not to play the blame game on whichever politician you currently don't like!

Trump is trying to hang Fauci. That goes in the completely opposite direction of promoting the trust of medical institutions in general society, and it's trust that will get people back to vaccinating themselves and their children.

Fauci case is weird. Fauci did pretty much what every other country was doing. If he did anything wrong it was doing too little too late.

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by epihelix »

maipen wrote: post #281
Hikikomori wrote: post #249

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Oh great he's doing it now after causing fear and doubt about them for decades, getting many people killed, in Samoa for example.

Most of his criticisms have been about the timing of certain vaccines administrations. He's not anti vax. If nobody can challenge science, then it's not science. Vaccines continues to help us, but that doesn't mean they are perfect and don't cause side effects on certain individuals. Hopefuly the future brings us highly personalized medicine instead of a 1 size fits all.

Claiming RFK is not anti-vax, is like claiming Dario is not anti-open-weights.

(Well, it's way worse that that, but I didn't want to invoke Godwin's law.)

He is not "challenging science" with measured arguments and carefully controlled peer-reviewed research to back his claims. He's deliberately trying to silence science because of a completely unsupported brain fart.

And no, it's not about "timing". It's about spreading baseless FUD to discourage any form of vaccination, because he believes (with no actual evidence, and despite vast amounts of research to the contrary) that vaccination causes autism.

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