Consider getting the shingles vaccine. A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that a shingles vaccine reduces the ...

The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

Women at risk for Alzheimer’s and other causes of dementia may especially benefit from the vaccine, a new study finds.

For decades, researchers have searched for a way to slow or prevent dementia. Despite countless studies, solutions remain ...

A rare policy quirk in Wales offered scientists an accidental natural experiment—and what they found could reshape how we ...

Several previous studies have suggested that shingles vaccinations might reduce dementia risk, but most could not exclude the ...

But at least from a medical perspective, it doesn't really matter. The vaccine is highly effective at preventing severe cases of shingles, and it seems to significantly reduce the frequency of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains. A new study found shingles ...

Shingles, or herpes zoster ... That could help explain why treatments that directly target those plaques have been largely ineffective — because they weren’t targeting the real causes.

Analysis of a Welsh program offering live-attenuated shingles vaccines to people born after a certain date showed a 20 percent relative drop in dementia risk.

(MENAFN- Quintile Reports) The Global Shingles Treatments Market was estimated at $2.6 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $5.9 billion by 2034 , reflecting a robust CAGR of 7.7% over the ...

Shingles of any type is believed to affect around 1 in 3 people in their lifetime and it’s estimated that up to 1 million new ...