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Lung damage found by accident on a scan tracked 54% higher death risk
Health screening scans routinely turn up emphysema in people with no symptoms, and it is usually noted and forgotten. Following 41,000 Korean adults, it predicted death, except in one group where nobody died at all.
Sep 6, 2026
An old antibiotic beat a newer drug at preventing COPD flare-ups, 17% fewer
Two maintenance drugs for chronic lung disease have never been compared head to head. An analysis built to imitate that missing trial, across 15,100 matched patients, found a clear winner.
Sep 4, 2026
Two hearing aids beat one in the first trial to test it, by a margin the authors won't call meaningful
Fitting both ears is standard practice and has never been tested properly. Randomizing 275 older adults found the two-aid group ahead, and the researchers are careful about how far ahead.
Sep 4, 2026
Blood sodium in the upper normal range tracked up to 3 times the dementia risk
About half of adults do not drink enough, and blood sodium creeps up when they do not. Across 409,000 people followed for up to 30 years, dementia risk began climbing at levels a doctor would read as perfectly normal.
Sep 1, 2026