Stress, the cost of living, long working hours and even excessive exercise have all been touted as reasons the illness is rising among women in their 30s and 40s. What can be done to help them?

When researchers found that shingles vaccination corresponded with roughly a 20% drop in dementia diagnoses, it signaled a ...

"It remains dormant in nerve tissues for years or even decades until it is reactivated." ...

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To combat the rising cases of shingles, a particular scourge for older adults,  the health ministry will add its vaccination ...

Have you seen the TV commercial for the shingles vaccine Zostavax? It shows a middle-aged man in an office with a dreadful looking rash on his face, wincing at meetings, and receiving the ...

Share on Pinterest In addition to preventing shingles, could the vaccine also support heart health? Image credit: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Research suggests that the shingles vaccine is ...

Getting shingles just once could increase the risk of long-term confusion and memory loss, a new study has found. The study, led by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, linked the ...

Shingles is an outbreak of rashes and blisters on the skin, caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. Once an individual has had chickenpox, the virus stays in the body in an inactive state.

A new adult vaccine has received a double thumbs-up from the American federal health system. On the heels of the Food and Drug Administration approval of Shingrix, a new vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline ...

Internal shingles, or zoster sine herpete (ZSH), is a rare condition caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and presents with typical shingles symptoms but without the characteristic skin rash.

Even if you haven't had shingles, you probably know that it's no fun at all. While the infection—which is caused by the varicella zoster virus—isn't life-threatening, it can be unbelievably painful ...