Speaking before Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that Europe doesn’t ...

When it comes to whether acyclovir needs to be stopped, I assume your doctor was thinking of the old shingles vaccine, ...

According to the CDC, one-in-three, or an estimated 1 million people, will develop shingles each year in America.

Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which also causes chicken pox; once you get chicken pox, the virus stays dormant in your body. Various triggers—usually some sort of ...

A study suggests that shingles vaccination may reduce heart disease risk by preventing a viral infection that can damage ...

The lower incidence of dementia seen in adults who received the shingles vaccine is likely not just a correlation, scientists say, based on new results of an observational study.

One out of every three adults around the world will develop shingles — a reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus. The ...

VARICELLA ZOSTER IS THAT WHAT IT’S CALLED? THAT IS CORRECT. SO AT YOUNGER AGES, IT CAUSES CHICKENPOX. SO WHY DOES IT REAPPEAR LATER IN LIFE AS SHINGLES? ED? REALLY GREAT QUESTION. AND ONE OF THE ...

The highly common herpes strain, also called varicella-zoster virus (VZV), can cause chickenpox in childhood and later develop into shingles in older or immuno-compromised adults. The shingles ...