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Are Health Tests Really a Good Idea?

Horizon (2015)

Documentary

Director: Serena Davies

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Rating: 7.9/10

SYNOPSIS

Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a new national screening procedure to detect the earliest signs of bowel cancer, Mosley set...

Producer: Serena Davies

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