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

When data from two data sources were analyzed -- one of commercial health insurance claims, the other from Medicare -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many Brits might unknowingly be walking a knife’s edge with their health, as an expert warned if left untreated, the disease ...

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

The RSV vaccine is given in one shot. Shingles (herpes zoster) is the reactivation of the chickenpox virus (varicella-zoster virus), causing an outbreak of painful, blistering sores in one of every ...

after a weaker-than-expected performance for its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and shingles vaccines in the third quarter, pushing shares down as much as 4.1%. The British drugmaker now ...

During the third quarter, sales of GSK’s shingles vaccine dropped by 7% compared to the same period in 2023, while sales of its shot for respiratory syncytial virus, Arexvy, plunged by 72% year over ...