What screening is for, and what it cannot do
A test offered to healthy people has a different logic from one offered to the ill.
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Vaccination across a lifetime, not just in childhood
Most adults have no idea what they are due.
The health check: getting something useful out of it
A package of tests is not the same as an assessment.
Cardiovascular risk: the prevention that actually pays off
The least glamorous prevention has the largest effect.
Preventive care for people living abroad
Nobody sends you an invitation when you have left the system.
The prevention that is not about medicine at all
Sleep, movement, connection and not falling over.
Generic and brand medicines: what the difference really is
Same active ingredient, different price, and a few genuine exceptions.
Working with a pharmacist: the most underused resource in healthcare
Free, accessible, expert, and most people only use them as a till.
Supplements and herbal products: what to check before taking anything
Natural does not mean inert, and inert does not mean harmless to your wallet.
Taking several medicines safely: the practical system
Complexity, not the medicines themselves, is what usually goes wrong.
Filling prescriptions abroad: what changes when you cross a border
Your prescription is a local document; your medicine is not.
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