But Jacquelyn Gill, a professor at the University of Maine, had shingles nine years ago, when she was just 35. Even though ...

You can develop shingles on the face. The rash looks like a group of small blisters or lesions that can itch, burn, or tingle. With treatment, the lesions and pain should subside in three to five ...

Disseminated shingles may cover a wider area than this and may cross the midline of the body. Treatment for disseminated shingles may involve antiviral medications. People with a weakened immune ...

A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be ...

Some people with shingles only experience mild symptoms. They may develop a rash, fatigue, headaches, and a low grade fever. Home remedies and over-the-counter (OTC) treatments may help relieve ...

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

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 ...

But at least from a medical perspective, it doesn't really matter. The vaccine is highly effective at preventing severe cases ...

“The shingles vaccines … seem to be one of those ... trials are the gold standard for measuring the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention by randomly dividing similar participants ...

A new study has made the "striking finding" that a certain vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia by a staggering 20 per cent. The research project led by Stanford Medicine involved analysing the ...

But with few currently effective treatments or preventions, Dr. Harrison said, shingles vaccines appear to have “some of the strongest potential protective effects against dementia that we know ...