“Shingles is an unusual infection,” William Schaffner, MD, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, tells SELF. While doctors usually warn that ...

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 ...

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), ...

(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, ...

Hay fever is very common in the UK and, according to the Met Office, it affects around 10 million people every year. The symptoms are wide ranging, with some merely mildly irritating while others ...

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 ...

She took one look at me and said I had shingles. I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that my husband, who is not in the medical field, had called it! When I got home, he looked up my symptoms ...