That reactivation creates intense inflammation around nerve cells, and chronic inflammation is increasingly recognized as a ...

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

But where does dementia fit in? Here’s one theory: VZV infiltrates the brain much as it does the rest of the body. As our ...

Researchers exploit a natural experiment in Wales to isolate the vaccine’s protective effect against dementia.

The Oxford study based on the health records of 200,000 people from the US, found a 17 per cent reduction in dementia ...

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

Stanford researchers found that adults who received the zoster vaccine for shingles have a lower risk of developing dementia.

The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

The study found shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.

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