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

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

Some people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may worry that the shingles vaccine Shingrix will make their symptoms worse.

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.

However, Shingrix, a two-dose shingles vaccine that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2017, can reduce the incidence of shingles and its complications significantly. "The vaccine, ...

The print ads featured a prominent display of a person’s back, highlighting where shingles rashes typically emerge.

Finally, it’s too late for your mother, but older people who have not had the newer two-dose shingles vaccine (Shingrix) should get it, even if they had the old one-dose vaccine (Zostavax ...

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, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella ...

Learn more. 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, chicken pox. I was tested in ...

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