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The high-dose flu shot cut flu hospital admissions by 31% in French care homes, average age 88
Older immune systems respond weakly to vaccines, so one product carries four times the antigen. A nationwide French analysis matched 76,858 pairs of care home residents and found the stronger shot kept fewer of them out of hospital.
Aug 30, 2026
Lean people with fatty liver and no risk factors still faced 2.5 times the liver death rate
Fatty liver is treated as a consequence of obesity and metabolic problems. A Gut analysis of 30,847 MRI-scanned UK Biobank participants found a slim group with none of those markers, and followed it to a higher rate of liver-related death.
Aug 30, 2026
People given the newer shingles vaccine had 9% less heart disease over the next seven years
A Nature Medicine team used America's abrupt switch from the live to the recombinant shingles vaccine as a natural experiment in adults over 60. Heart disease, heart failure and atrial fibrillation were all lower seven years on.
Aug 30, 2026
Belly fat and sleep apnea each predicted the other over nine years, but only under 55
A Thorax analysis of the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort followed adults for a median nine years. Visceral obesity at baseline carried seven times the odds of developing sleep apnea, and sleep apnea predicted new visceral obesity in return.
Aug 28, 2026