A recent article by Harvard Medical School discussed an unexpected benefit that the shingles vaccine might provide ...

WASHINGTON—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 vaccination cut ...

HEALTH bosses have laid out the symptoms of a common infection so that you can catch it early. The HSE have warned people ...

Shingles, caused by varicella-zoster virus, is a painful infection that can lead to serious complications if left untreated.

However, the Stanford team utilized a natural experiment created by Wales’ shingles vaccination policy. Starting on September ...

The shingles vaccine could do double duty as a protector against both infections and dementia, according to a new study.

A large quasi-experimental study in Australia found that adults eligible for free shingles vaccination based on their date of ...

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Zostavax and Shingrix are linked to protection for older adults in multiple studies.

This color-enhanced Transmission Electron Micrograph (TEM) shows the varicella zoster virus (VZV), a virus in the Herpesviridae family that causes chickenpox in children and shingles (herpes ...

A study found that elderly people hospitalized with severe shingles are up to seven times more likely to have early dementia.

And the viruses most commonly linked are from the same family — varicella zoster virus (VZV) that causes chickenpox and ...