Many people aren’t benefiting from the shingles vaccine now. Not only can it prevent shingles — it also may protect the brain ...

G etting vaccinated for the viral illness shingles, which causes a painful rash, could potentially be the next best tool in ...

A large natural experiment shows that the herpes zoster vaccine reduces dementia diagnoses by 20% over seven years. The ...

A study of over 280,000 adults found that the shingles vaccine reduced dementia risk by 20%, with a stronger effect in women.

The shingles vaccine, typically administered to fend off a painful rash, might pack an unexpected benefit by delaying or even ...

A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be ...

A recent study found that people who received Zostavax, a older shingles vaccine, had a lower risk of developing dementia.

Analysis of a Welsh program offering live-attenuated shingles vaccines to people born after a certain date showed a 20 percent relative drop in dementia risk.

It makes sense to include routine adult vaccinations to our list of preventative measures, not only for prevention of common ...

Wales' vaccination program policy created natural experiment for U.S. research team, which found 20% reduction in dementia.

The strongest set of evidence to date indicates that people who had a shingles vaccine had significantly lower odds of ...

Previous research in July 2024 hinted that the older live shingles vaccine might offer some protection, but that vaccine has been discontinued in favor of the recombinant version. Researchers ...