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Many people aren’t benefiting from the shingles vaccine now. Not only can it prevent shingles — it also may protect the brain ...
A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be ...
The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.
Want to reduce your risk of dementia? Consider getting the shingles vaccine. A new study provides the strongest evidence yet ...
For decades, researchers have searched for a way to slow or prevent dementia. Despite countless studies, solutions remain ...
Seniors who received the vaccine for shingles had a 20% lower risk of dementia, say Stanford researchers who called the ...
The strongest set of evidence to date indicates that people who had a shingles vaccine had significantly lower odds of ...
A study yesterday in Nature adds to the growing body of evidence that shingles vaccines are protective against dementia.
By 2020, one in eight participants – by then aged 86 and 87 – had been diagnosed with dementia. However, the researchers found that receiving the shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a ...
Receipt of zoster vaccine reduces probability of new dementia diagnosis over seven-year period by 3.5 percentage points.
Getting vaccinated appears to significantly reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia ...
A rare policy quirk in Wales offered scientists an accidental natural experiment—and what they found could reshape how we prevent dementia. Researchers discovered that people eligible for the shingles ...