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Omega-3 supplements have been shown to reduce the risk of falls and frailty in older people.Credit: Brian Jackson/Alamy Clinician-scientist Heike Bischoff-Ferrari and geroscientist Steve Horvath take omega-3 and vitamin D

The monkeypox virus (particles shown in this coloured electron micrograph) is evolving.Credit: CDC/Science Photo Library Yet another strain of the virus that causes mpox might be readily spreading from person