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

It’s nerve-wracking to hear that a new variant is making the rounds, but infectious disease specialists say there are no ...

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 ...

(BPT) – 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. Sam Picking, ...

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

Researchers have developed a new treatment formula—known as GS-1—that could reduce the symptoms and contagiousness of the viruses behind shingles ... DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.

Shingles occurs when the varicella-zoster virus, which causes chickenpox and then stays in the body after symptoms clear up ... greater risk of stroke and a 10 per cent greater risk of heart ...

The rash comes in the form of blisters that will scab over within 7 to 10 days. With shingles ... vaccine protect you from the painful symptoms of shingles, but now there’s one more reason ...

"Shingles is no fun," she said, and its rare complications can be serious, "but it passes," and "the reason to get the vaccine is to avoid postherpetic neuralgia," which affects 10 to 20 percent ...

Alongside the skin symptoms, patients may ... in early dementia seen in the severe shingles group, compared to those in the other two groups. And after 10 years, the risk for dementia was 22 ...