Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and is a member of the herpes virus group. It is extremely contagious and causes a ...

Many Brits could be unknowingly teetering on the brink of serious health issues, as a leading expert warns that if left ...

Many Brits might unknowingly be walking a knife’s edge with their health, as an expert warned if left untreated, the disease ...

The longer it tends to last as well. Women are more likely to develop PHN, and I have read estimates that somewhere between ...

Examples include eczema, chickenpox, psoriasis, and shingles. It can be hard to identify a skin rash since many cause similar symptoms. A skin rash is generally defined as an area of irritated ...

Symptoms of an ear infection include all of the above ... your body then it is very likely that it is shingles however if ...

GP Alice Fitzgibbon covers a common condition many people will have heard of – shingles. Shingles is an infection that causes ...

Housing remained the focus of the NDP on Tuesday, as leader Claudia Chender promised to create a compliance and enforcement ...

There's a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles ...

The highly neuroinflammatory disease caused by herpes zoster (HZ) virus triggers a painful, itchy rash ... with symptoms manifesting at a later age. “For those who show early neurological changes of ...

The virus spreads down a nerve pathway to cause a painful blistering rash in the skin area that the nerve wires. In about 8 percent of the more than 1 million new shingles cases in the United States ...