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 ...

In the new study, the Italian researchers recruited 132,986 adults aged 50 and older - 12,000 of who were hospitalised with a ...

Evidence shows that vaccines of shingles, even influenza and tuberculosis, can lower the incidence of the disease ...

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