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

A leading pharmacist has warned Brits not to overlook changes to their skin – because they could be vital clues to a life-threatening condition. From a subtle discolouration to a change in texture or ...

The Pharmacy First scheme was launched across England in January to help alleviate stress on an already overburdened health ...

A leading pharmacist has warned Brits not to overlook changes to their skin – because they could be vital clues to a ...

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 ...

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, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella-zoster virus ...

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

One specific type of viral exanthem that dermatologists have seen with COVID is a morbilliform rash, meaning a measles-like rash. Measles rashes tend to look like small raised bumps that eventually ...

Houston said the shingles vaccine should be free because statistics show one in three people will develop the painful skin rash, the risk of which increases as people age. “We have the tools to ...

The treatments will relieve itching as well as bringing down any redness from the rash to enable for a full recovery. Shingles can be a painful infection which will present with a rash ...