Back in 2013, the government of Wales decided that it would begin providing the zoster vaccine to prevent shingles in adults ...

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk ...

Stanford researchers found that adults who received the zoster vaccine for shingles have a lower risk of developing dementia.

The study found shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.

A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to ...

Shingles is a painful rash which occurs in someone who has previously had chickenpox. Ever since your mother had chickenpox the Varicella Zoster virus which caused it has laid silently in the ...

You do not have to wait until his skin looks completely clear. Children can also catch chickenpox if exposed to an adult with shingles as the same virus (the varicella zoster virus) causes both ...

Public Health Isle of Man is warning parents to be on the lookout for chickenpox. The organisation says the virus is currently spreading around the Isle of Man, mostly among children. It says ...

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Measles doesn’t just cause illness, but also erases the immune system’s memory, leaving people vulnerable to infections ...