Ariel:
The decision to exclude hepatitis from the WHO’s Millennium goals was “an epidemiological oversight based on flawed data.”

Back in 2000, when governments worldwide adopted the Millennium goals, experts profoundly underestimated the hepatitis disease burden, They only included mortality figures for acute hepatitis and left out those for hepatitis B and C related liver cancer and cirrhosis deaths — which actually account for about 80 % of the viral hepatitis mortality burden.

Maybe you should remind them of that.

P.

The UK’s Gilead Greed protesters would back him up, I’m sure.

We got a story on the high cost of meds on the local paper but no mention of generics. I’ll contact the two reporters that wrote the story. They are from CALmatters ( a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture dedicated to explaining California policies and politics).

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/health/2016/04/14/84k-new-hepatitis-c-drug-ca-rx-spending-costs-soar/82764350/

P.

On eBay you pay mostly with Paypal. Plus eBay will give you your money back if the product is not exactly what was advertised.

I love eBay, it’s where I got a couple of my jet guns.

P.

I’m a desert rat. Palm Springs, California area.

“I didn’t get a sense of how this all worked, but it sounds possible DAA’s may have other unintended uses…? Does it breakdown the fibrosis or just give the liver a fair go at doing this?”

DAAs must inactivate CB1 because receptor CB1 is crucial for fibroblast activation. Inactivation of CB1 exerts potent antifibrotic effect. On the other hand Hepatitis C Virus up-regulates the Cannabinoid Receptor 1

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0012841

“I read somewhere about good old interferon possible being effective in reversing Peyronie’s disease in as much as it broke down scar tissue?”

I’ve seen one case of Peyrone’s caused by interferon.

P.

Elevated GGT can be caused by insulin resistance, diabetes, and fatty liver. Diabetes is common in Veterans because many of them got exposed to Agent Orange and diabetes is also common post transplant.

“Elevated serum GGT concentrations predict reduced insulin sensitivity and increased intrahepatic lipids.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15952086

Remember that he may have PTSD since Veterans were exposed to horrific things in Vietnam. That can cause him to be “vague” or not understand some things. He’s lucky to have you watching after him. Please thank him for his service. Australia didn’t have a draft, so all your Vietnam Veterans were volunteers. Something to be admired.

P.