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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Amid warnings of a 'tripledemic' of cold, flu and Covid this winter, millions could bypass the GP queue and directly access ...

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

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

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

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 ...