“Shingles is an unusual infection,” William Schaffner, MD, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt ...

Ignoring advice to check vaccination status for measles or to get a measles vaccination could be easy to do for adults in the ...

Have you experienced pain or tingling in your hands or feet? Those are signs of possible neuropathy, “a general term for nerve dysfunction in your limbs,” says Eva Feldman, a professor of neurology at ...

All analyses were performed using Stata V.10.0 (Stata, College Station, Texas, USA). In BIOBADASER 2.0 there were 106 cases of shingles reported (IR 65.6 per 10 000 patient-years; 95% CI 54 to 79.8), ...

When individuals reach age 50, their risk of developing shingles increases, making it more important than ever to understand this painful condition and how to help prevent it.

Prostate cancer usually does not cause symptoms in the early stages. Signs of prostate cancer can include frequent urination, weak or interrupted urine stream, painful ejaculation, blood in urine ...

A dementia specialist has outlined the signs and symptoms to look out for. Approximately one million individuals in the UK are living with dementia, yet a third remain undiagnosed. Hollie Wynde ...

The Nova Scotia government will begin covering the cost of the shingles vaccine as of May 28 for residents aged 65 and older.

“We know how severe the symptoms of shingles are, and the good news is that it can be easily prevented.” The vaccine program is supported by a government investment of more than $26 million in the ...

Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that Europe doesn’t vaccinate children against chickenpox because a study shows that when you do, “you get shingles in older people.” While that is a ...

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier John Hogan announced Thursday that the province will offer the shingles vaccine to residents over 50 by September, and to those over 50 who are immunocompromised ...