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Flu Shots and the Elderly, Hit and Miss

Posted on September 03, 2008

A new study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has determined that flu shots DO protect against the flu, but DON T cut death-risk in the elderly. Reuters reports:In prior studies, an impressive 50 percent reduction in death from any cause had been noted in elderly people who got a flu shot, but some researchers were skeptical of this degree of benefit, suggesting that it may have been the result of the healthy user effect. The new study supports this line of thinking. The study included more than 700 elderly people, half of whom had gotten a flu shot and half...

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