Patients with inflammatory arthritis would benefit from vaccination against herpes zoster, with the Shingrix vaccine showing a crude effectiveness of 50%.

Vaccination programs have saved lives – and saved the Canadian economy and health care system significant resources as well ...

In August 2024, the World Health Organization declared a second "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" for mpox.

A rare complication of shingles is urinary retention, in which the bladder doesn't empty enough or at all when someone ...

Researchers found that older adults who received AS01-adjuvanted shingles or RSV vaccines had a significantly lower risk of ...

In recent weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has begun to dismantle decades of vaccine safety ...

Kennedy’s decision to replace ACIP wholesale and the comments he has made about deviating from standard vaccine policymaking ...

Shingrix cuts cases of shingles by 97.4 per cent in that age group, according to a large clinical trial. “It does not change the overall benefit this vaccine has been proven to have.

Jane Kim, MD, is currently a medical editor and writer. She also consults on digital content for physician medical education. Home remedies for shingles, including calamine lotion, cool compresses ...

Michael Knapp, ND, DHANP How a 51-Year-Old Female Achieved Fast Relief from Shingles Using Classical Homeopathy Abstract This case illustrates the successful treatment of shingles with individualized ...

"Shingles is no fun," she said, and its rare complications can be serious, "but it passes," and "the reason to get the vaccine is to avoid postherpetic neuralgia," which affects 10 to 20 percent ...

While you can’t give another person shingles, the fluid from the blisters can infect someone with the varicella-zoster virus if they’ve never had chickenpox or been vaccinated against it.