Insights

The desire to look inside our bodies is nothing new - today the wider field of medical imaging includes tools such as radiology, ultrasound, CT scans, MRI and much more, enabling images of the body’s interior to be safely captured, to diagnose and treat illness and disease.

A Q&A with Wellesta on its new partnership with Jameel Health

For most of human history, even the tiniest of scratches could prove fatal. Never mind pneumonia, childbirth or surgery, gardening was a potentially deadly pursuit. A graze or scratch could become infected, and there was very little you could about it apart from hoping the harmful microbes didn’t spread. It was basically your immune system versus the bacteria.

In medical lexicon ‘metabolic syndrome’ (MetS) might not exactly trip from the tongue like ‘heart disease’ or ‘cancer’. Yet, depending on where you live in the world, there could be a one-in-three chance you have the condition already. And despite its relative obscurity, be in no doubt: its impact is life threatening.