Vaccination can also lower your chances of other serious shingles complications. For example, if it shows up on your face, ...

Individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and multiple sclerosis (MS) had fewer herpes zoster (shingles) attacks if ...

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

There's a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles ... is waiting for peer review and publication. There is a vaccine for shingles that's more than 90% effective but only about ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chickenpox. I was tested in 2022 for ...

Scientists have developed a vaccine for shingles, the unpleasant and often extremely painful condition which, it is estimated, affects around one third of the population at some point in their lives.

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.

Cohen was in this unlucky group, despite catching it early and receiving immediate treatment ... not only is shingles associated with dementia, but also that getting a shingles vaccine can ...

The ZEDS study also found that this same treatment reduced a chronic nerve ... and whether the shingles vaccine affected COVID-19 diagnosis and severity among participants. Other principal study ...

And the risk of this happening increases with age (especially after 50 years), a compromised immune system (e.g. in HIV and ...