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

The possibility that it was shingles never crossed her mind. After all, she’d always heard it was an illness that mainly ...

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

Researchers found people given a shingles vaccine had a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart ...

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.

This newsletter focuses on the shingles vaccine. Shingles, also called herpes zoster, is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. When someone recovers from chicken pox, the virus doesn ...

The highly common herpes strain, also called varicella-zoster virus (VZV), can cause chickenpox in childhood and later ...

"A shingles infection can cause blood vessel ... is that because of the chronic inflammation you can have from an infection like chicken pox ... if your immune system gets weak, you're getting ...

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.

Shingles is not just about painful rashes – it can also increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, especially for older ...