United States: A recent paper in Nature Aging supports previous findings that severe infections such as flu, herpes, and respiratory tract infections are associated with a faster rate of shrinkage in the brain and an increased risk of dementia years ...
United States: New data also suggests that the flu vaccine was 34.5 percent effective in preventing people in the Southern Hemisphere who did get influenza from needing hospital care this year. Of those sent to hospital, the U.S. Centers for ...