‘Love your liver’ campaign calls for universal screening
With deaths from liver disease up a reported 400 per cent since the 1980s, the British Liver Trust is calling on the UK Government to introduce liver screening tests for all, to help save both lives and millions of pounds in NHS health costs. Liver disease is now listed as the third most common cause of premature death in the UK, with the average age of death from the disease being only 57 years old. Drinking alcohol, obesity and hepatitis…