A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk ...

Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a viral infection caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox, ...

A recent study found that the shingles vaccine could cut the risk of older adults developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%. The research, which was published on Wednesday in the journal ...

Shingles are caused by the varicella-zoster ... largely among men who have sex with men. That outbreak was brought under control after behaviour change and safe sex practices.

What is shingles? Anyone who’s had ever had chickenpox – nearly everybody born before 1980 – harbors that virus for the rest of their life. It hides in nerves and can break out when the ...

A recent study found that the shingles vaccine could cut the risk ... It hides in nerves and can break out when the immune system weakens from illness or age, causing painful, blister-like sores ...

A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to ...

A new study found shingles vaccination cut older adults ... It hides in nerves and can break out when the immune system weakens from illness or age, causing painful, blister-like sores typically ...