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A guide to shingles with the NHS website answering questions like what is the cause, is it contagious, and is there a ...

Shingles, a viral rash, can be incredibly painful. Vaccination can help prevent the infection, but new research is showing the vaccine may also have another benefit: protecting against the ...

The shingles vaccine could do double duty as a protector against both infections and dementia, according to a new study.

Shingles of any type is believed to affect around 1 in 3 people in their lifetime and it’s estimated that up to 1 million new cases of shingles will occur in the United States each year.

A study found that elderly people hospitalized with severe shingles are up to seven times more likely to have early dementia.

In the new study, the Italian researchers recruited 132,986 adults aged 50 and older - 12,000 of who were hospitalised with a ...

Red spots on the skin, called petechiae, may also appear. Share on Pinterest A rash caused by shingles tends to appear in clusters on one side of the body. Anukool Manoton/Shutterstock Shingles is ...

Dementia is one of the most feared conditions of old age with few effective treatments and no cure. Almost 950,000 people ...