Free cholesterol tests on the NHS are great – but here’s the five-point health MOT I’d really like to see | Devi Sridhar
You could be walking around symptom-free and not know you’re pre-diabetic, living with hypertension or at a high risk of a heart attackProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” Benjamin Franklin’s adage goes. Yet that simple prescription has been hard to follow in the current NHS. As has been frequently highlighted, one of the biggest challenges for the health system is not just how…
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