DanBC

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by DanBC 4y ago
I don't think you re-patent an off-label use, you re-patent a minor modification. See for example ketamine to eskatamine; or citalopram to escitalopram. Once you have the new med you use the courts to prevent the off-label use. See eg
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by DanBC 4y ago
I'm submitting the link to the Twitter post because the Times has an unpredictable paywall.
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England poised to become fisrt country to eliminate Hepatitis C(twitter.com)
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by DanBC 4y ago
Bit odd that the US tolerates, even celebrates, massive tax avoidance but spends a lot of money on preventing relatively small sums of benefit fraud.
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by DanBC 4y ago
Are you saying there aren't female coal miners? What do you think coal miners do?
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by DanBC 4y ago
Yes, it's like people have completely forgotten, or maybe never heard of, the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle > The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurenc
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by DanBC 4y ago
The vast majority of healthcare is provided to outpatients so numbers of staff to beds is a fucking weird ratio to look at.
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Most folks who have money I know always tend to go private rather than dealing with a 6 month wait for a routine check up. I don't get this - if it's a routine check up you'll have one per year, so your GP will be booki
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by DanBC 4y ago
> but currently in the UK, the police are pretty much always the first (often only) to deal with MH issues and get people into care/section them etc. I can't talk about Scotland, Wales, or NI. But here's the data for Engla
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by DanBC 4y ago
No, they mean something like England already has for dentistry or social care or opticians - access is available if you pay for it, and not much available if you can't pay for it.
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by DanBC 4y ago
She's wrong though. We know she's wrong because the mistake she made is the exact same mistake Bilek made. Bilek claimed Soros had made a huge donation to a pro-trans organisation.He hadn't, he'd made a small donation to
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Blocking water with a dam is a well understood problem I feel like we still have some problems with dam building, because they keep failing. We struggle to get the building material (in particular, sand). Concrete is pretty awful in te
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by DanBC 4y ago
So, uh, yes, but it's very dependent what bit of England you're in and what bit of mental health service you're trying to access. I'm not disagreeing with you btw, the picture is pretty bleak for very many people. Some o
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by DanBC 4y ago
> And if they are having a mental health crisis, they should be able to plea insanity. "Not guilty by way of insanity" is an incredibly high bar to meet, and it happens very rarely. What usually happens (in England!!) is that t
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by DanBC 4y ago
We're using the word consent because we're having to use massive simplifications. Bit weird that you're insisting on a US-only framing of concepts of competence, capacity, and consent. > Edit: I dont want to talk about int
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by DanBC 4y ago
The conclusion of the paper that you've misunderstood and are misrepresenting: "This is the first study in which associations between access to pubertal suppression and suicidality are examined. There is a significant inverse asso
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by DanBC 4y ago
But children consent to treatment all the time. If you want to talk about non-consensual treatment you could mention surgery provided to intersex children, but that doesn't fit the narrative.
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by DanBC 4y ago
Where is insanity in DSM?
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by DanBC 4y ago
> It's entirely inconsistent and useless. For some people their infection with covid is going to be mild, and their infection with a cough or cold is going to feel to them similar to covid. But for other people covid is very much mo
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by DanBC 4y ago
You mean intersex children, right? Or you don't care about them because, er, reasons?
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by DanBC 4y ago
Puberty blockers are not irreversible.
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by DanBC 4y ago
You're claiming that providing a cheap, unpatented, medication to 0.5% of the population is some kid of growth opportunity when the same meds are used for nearly 1 in 3 women?
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by DanBC 4y ago
Joyce pushes an antisemitic conspiracy theory. She claims she made a simple error with the names of two charities. (George Soros made a very large donation to a human rights charity, and a very much smaller donation to a pro-trans charity,
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by DanBC 4y ago
> There are still many publicized cases of puberty blockers being given to young children (i.e. before 12 years of age). You know that's the licensed use for these meds, right? To block precocious puberty?
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by DanBC 4y ago
I have significant concerns when the "default" response to these questions leads to powerful drugs taken during puberty, That's not the default, very few children who went through GIDS got access to meds. The majority got no
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by DanBC 4y ago
You're getting a lot wrong because you're focussing on regular referral from GP to secondary care, and not from GP to specialist commissioning. > 20 years? What This was the actual, not reported, wait list for Tavistock. The re
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by DanBC 4y ago
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/11/03/repo... > Processed meat – meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavor o
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by DanBC 4y ago
For "processed red meat" people mean red meat that has been preserved by smoking, salting, curing, or by adding preservatives.
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by DanBC 4y ago
Compassion in Dying have some advice about advance decision making. https://compassionindying.org.uk/making-decisions-and-planni... It's important to get the right balance around specificity. You need to include some
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by DanBC 4y ago
Unfortunately the wait lists are highly dependent on where abouts you are in England.

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