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 ...

New service to help people get medical help directly from local pharmacies has been used more than 40,000 times in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough ...

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.