We tend to think of COVID-19 as a respiratory illness. But, like many viruses, COVID can also affect your skin and cause ...

Rare but serious side effects include rash, itching, yellowing of the skin ... a specific type of nerve pain called post-herpetic neuralgia that often follows a shingles' diagnosis. In addition to ...

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella-zoster virus ...

Medically reviewed by Katlein Franca, MD In some ways, the features of a cold sore vs. a pimple on the lip line are very ...

The new Pharmacy First service has already been used more than 40,000 times in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Royston.