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

A rare policy quirk in Wales offered scientists an accidental natural experiment—and what they found could reshape how we ...

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

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

With new dementia cases expected to double in the United States by 2060, the therapy could be a difference maker. But ...

For decades, researchers have searched for a way to slow or prevent dementia. Despite countless studies, solutions remain ...

Researchers tracking dementia cases in UK adults have discovered the shingles vaccine could cut the risk of patients ...

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

The chickenpox vaccine protects children from the initial viral infection, and the separate shingles vaccine prevents the virus from reactivating in previously infected adults (which is most ...

If you’re reducing risk of dementia 20%, that’s quite important in a public health context, says Oxford University researcher ...