Seniors who received the vaccine for shingles had a 20% lower risk of dementia, say Stanford researchers who called the ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer An older shingles vaccine may offer unexpected protection against dementia, new research ...

People born before 1957 are so likely to have had measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) that they are assumed to be ...

New research suggests that the shingles vaccine could lower your risk of developing dementia. Here's what the study says and ...

Researchers tracking dementia cases in UK adults have discovered the shingles vaccine could cut the risk of patients ...

The virus that causes chicken pox stays dormant in the body, sometimes for decades, before reappearing as shingles. However, shingles does not occur as a result of exposure but because of a waning ...

Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox, varicella-zoster. The virus stays dormant in the nerve cells of people who get chicken pox as children, and then re-emerges as folks ...

Shingles, which is caused by varicella-zoster virus (the same virus that causes chickenpox), can cause everything from neuralgia, eye problems and even dangerous brain inflammation, per the Mayo ...