Leading medical experts call for an end to UK postcode lottery for liver disease treatment, detection
Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
Leading medical experts warn that rising numbers of deaths from liver disease -- already the UK's third commonest cause of premature death -- will be unavoidable without radical improvements in treatment and detection services, and tougher government policies to control the excessive alcohol use and obesity responsible for much of the national burden of liver disease.