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

Study in older adults found that individuals who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia than those who were unvaccinated.

Older adults who were vaccinated against shingles were 20% less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years compared with people who didn’t receive the shot, a study shows. The report was ...

Researchers at Stanford University found evidence that suggests the shingles vaccine lowers the risk of developing dementia.

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

A study published in Nature shows a connection between the shingles vaccine and delayed dementia symptoms. A local ...

Studies have shown that shingles vaccines lower the risk of dementia. According to a study by a team of Stanford University ...

A recent study found that shingles vaccination reduces dementia risk by 20%, likely due to its impact on viral inflammation ...

Getting vaccinated against shingles may not only lower risk for the condition — it may offer some protection against dementia ...

Receiving the live-attenuated zoster vaccine (Zostavax) reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis by 3.5 percentage ...