TV presenter and health campaigner Anthea Turner (Image: Getty) TV star Anthea Turner has called for a nationwide NHS screening programme to help prevent more women from developing osteoporosis. The debilitating bone-thinning condition impacts nearly four million people in the UK, 80 per cent of them women. Sufferers have a heightened risk of fractures, immobility and chronic pain – but with early diagnosis, care and advice they are avoidable.
Anthea, 64, is backing the Sunday Express Better Bones campaign, which has won a commitment from Conservative and Labour leaders to provide scans for all over-50s who suffer a fracture. She said: “It is a superb crusade which shines an important light on an issue we all need to pay a lot more attention to.” But the former Blue Peter presenter wants to go further and offer scans as a matter of routine.
function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.setAttribute('src','https://live.
primis.tech/live/liveView.php?s=114945&playerApiId=v114945');document.
getElementById('ovp-primis').appendChild(el)}window.top.
addEventListener('primisPlayerInit',e=>{try{if(e.detail&&e.detail.
playerApiId==="v114945"){if(window.document.getElementsByClassName('jwplayer')[0]){e.
detail.float('disable')}}}catch(e){}});window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',()=>{setTimeout(()=>{if(typeof flagTcfLoaded!=='undefined'&&flagTcfLoaded===!0){loadOvpScript()ExpressApp.
Log('[Load] OVP flagTcfLoaded',new Date())}else{document.addEventListener(".
