Experts urge India to adopt a comprehensive vaccination strategy for shingles, highlighting its underestimated health burden ...

Every three seconds, someone, somewhere in the world, develops dementia. The number of people living with the condition is projected to rise dramatically, doubling from 78 million in 2020 to 139 ...

GSK has teamed up with two research organisations in the UK to explore a possible link between its shingles vaccine, Shingrix, and a reduced risk of dementia. The tantalising hypothesis – drawn from ...

A new global systematic literature review and meta-analysis has shown that herpes zoster vaccination, used to prevent shingles, is associated with a statistically significant lower risk of heart ...

Previous studies have indicated that reactivation of latent varicella zoster virus (VZV) might be associated with relapse in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Sotelo et al. examined patients with ...

Researchers assessed whether live attenuated herpes zoster vaccination was linked to incident dementia using policy driven eligibility cut offs in Ontario, Canada. The analysis focused on adults aged ...

Herpes zoster (HZ) is the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus and usually causes unilateral dermatomal vesicles; deep tissue involvement is uncommon. We report a 76-year-old man who, 12 days ...

dThe Phil and Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA ...