Women at risk for Alzheimer’s and other causes of dementia may especially benefit from the vaccine, a new study finds.

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

Taking advantage of a unique public health policy in the UK, a new study has found that receiving the shingles vaccine ...

Consider getting the shingles vaccine. A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that a shingles vaccine reduces the ...

Getting vaccinated appears to significantly reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia ...

The current study assessed dementia risk in people who had received the older vaccine, which used a live-attenuated form of the virus. Shingrix is a recombinant zoster vaccine. David Cutler ...

It’s been shown that reactivation of the chickenpox virus can lead to the accumulation of aberrant proteins associated with ...

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TUESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The shingles vaccine can do more than protect seniors from painful, blistering ...

Importantly, this latest study only looked at the earlier Zostavax vaccine, which has largely been replaced by the more effective Shingrix vaccine. This might mean that the results seen here are ...