While severe pain and burning are typical symptoms, tingling and buzzing sensations, along with numbness, can also be early ...

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 older adults' ...

Vaccine Step Down. A person’s probability of developing dementia over seven years increased with age. It was higher in 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 cases of shingles will occur in the United States each year ...

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 ...

Dr. Miller says cleaning your rash once a day is plenty. If you choose to do so in the shower, use lukewarm water; high heat and humidity can aggravate the skin, Dr. Massick notes. Wash your hands ...

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

A large “natural experiment” from Wales has been able to confirm what health records had previously suggested — getting vaccinated against the viral infection shingles reduces the odds of a person ...

Researchers at Stanford Medicine discovered that the shingles vaccine significantly reduces the risk of dementia by 20% in older adults. The study, leveraging a natural experiment in Wales ...

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

When his mom took him for a walk recently, the Pomeranian-Shih-Tzu mix decided to stand on his hind legs. What happened next was pure grizzly bear: Lucky the Pomeranian-Shih-Tzu mix might not be a ...