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Show HN: Health News – Hacker News for Health 7 years ago

Yeah I have a rare illness called intracranial idiopathic hypertension (7 months of daily headaches so far, yikes) and more bad things going on health wise, and consequently, I've developed health anxiety.

Sure, just tell me how we could get in touch on HN privately ;) Also I'm from Spain so just fyi.

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Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respiratory Illness, and Income 7 years ago

Well, when I said free, I of course meant paid through taxes that are adjusted to your income level. Here in Spain your public healthcare quality won't change depending on if you make €1000 or €4000. You won't be put on top of a medical waiting list because you contribute more taxes wise to the system.

Dentistry is another thing altogether.

Also opting out of "public health insurance" is impossible here in Spain, because it's a right. You can however choose to get private insurance/get treated by a private healthcare company.

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Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respiratory Illness, and Income 7 years ago

Because here in Western Europe, our healthcare doesn't depend on your job/income.

Plus, I've found that on average Americans are more health anxious (for example, if I search in Google Spain in Spanish "I just accidently hit my head with a wall" the treatment results I'll get will be "if you feel fine afterwards, and you didn't black out or anything like that, it's okay" while if I do the same search on google.com/ncr in English the second result tells me to go to the hospital now and demand a CT scan of my brain to check for an internal hemorrhage) than Europeans are.

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Canada's New Food Guide 7 years ago

Yeah right but the obesity increase is mostly correlated all around the world and here with the increased consumption of "junk food", i.e. highly processed and very high in sugar, not with olive oil consumption, so...

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Canada's New Food Guide 7 years ago

Diet is not everything in the equation and we already have the highest life expectancy in Europe, so we're already "high enough". Also things like eliminating pollution from especially cities have become hot topics recently and that's also helped and etc..

My claim specifically, was that I find it rather surprising that olive oil is unhealthy, when the soon to be country with the highest life expectancy in the world, consumes per person 10 kg of it every year.

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How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language (2005) 8 years ago

Compare the Catalans, who are very passionate about teaching a standard version of their language

Warm is an odd way to describe them, so I'm gonna try to give a more thorough explanation. Catalan in Catalonia (and Valencia and the Balearic Islands, I am a Valencian myself who grew up speaking and up to this day speaks Catalan regularly) has always been the "standard" language of the land, and Spanish was never the majority language of the region until 50 years ago (and it became the majority language because of immigration from other parts of Spain during the Nationalist Dictatorship of Franco, who until the late 60s/early 70s actively persecuted and discouraged the Catalan Language[Btw that immigration from other parts of Spain happened because Catalonia was an economic powerhouse compared to other parts of Spain, and this also one of the reasons why they are "autonomous" and the Catalan Language is official and whatnot, since you simply have more purchasing power politically speaking if you're richer than everyone in the country at the time).

Heck, the Spanish State tried to completely eliminate it actively for 300 years ever since 1714 until 1978 and yet they couldn't, contrary to what happened in France. Now the language is completely official in the region alongside with Spanish and education there, even sometimes in unis, is taught completely in Catalan (except in some cases), and this has been an "issue", mostly to people from outside of Catalonia who think that Catalans don't learn how to speak Spanish ranging from "completely" to "properly" (A lie btw, I until college went to a 100% Catalan Speaking School and I can assure you that I can speak Spanish more than fine). But it's impossible at the same time to not learn Spanish in Catalonia.

Why? Because all the media is in Spanish. Catalan Speaking media is simply weak and dead. And this is the "bigger" problem of the language. Catalan, while it may be in a rather good position in Catalonia, will never truly be a language of culture for people anymore. This saddens me, it really does, because I love my native language, however, I realize that this would happen to the language regardless if Spanish existed or not because just look at for example Sweden -they speak a small language close to English and thus most young people enjoy their culture in English, even going as far as to sometimes Englishize Swedish (and this has been an issue in Catalan too with Spanish, for example with the famous barbarismes [when you choose a Spanish word over a native Catalan one, for example: salida vs eixida (exit)]).

Overall, I genuinely believe that Catalan is gonna almost die in the next 100 years. Although at the same time I'd even wager to that on a 100 year timeframe I'd even wager to say that Spanish and any other language spoken in a free country is in danger to English.

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Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism 8 years ago

I also wonder why for example the Chinese or heck the Cubans didn't discover this before, who have less of a corporate interest.

Ibuprofen (And Naproxen, etc...) is one of the most common drugs all around the world. I think most people I know have taken them at least once in their lifetimes.

It's just all too weird. Is this all a malignant cover up by the industry? Don't know what to say, especially considering this was released 1 year ago and afaik no more research has been conducted on this.

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Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism 8 years ago

This is why I hate reading these type of posts on HN. Especially like in this case where there's still a lot to be researched on and to drawn conclusions from, and the outlook isn't positive.

My recommendation is to go and talk to your doctor and confront him or her with this "finding".

Also, most importantly, this "finding" has been out for almost a year now. I wonder what's the more recent development on it.

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Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps 8 years ago

From my Spanish Perspective.

What fraud? Going to the doctor is literally useless unless you're ill.

They will literally send you away home if they find you to be fine. The doctors and nurses and personnel and what have you will also get mad at you for wasting their time unjustifiably (and I've done this myself and oh boy they left an impression on me).

If you mean Government fraud, from the ones planning the system yes, indeed, all documentation about how much a healthcare center "costs", how their location and capacity is decided, and etc... should be open and easily accessible to the public.

Medication is partially subsidized and never given for free at a medical center or hospital unless it's an emergency, older than 65+, disabled, etc...

Recently, the government ordered to make like 1200 common meds cheaper (link in Spanish) https://cadenaser.com/ser/2018/12/29/sociedad/1546084258_187...

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