A rare policy quirk in Wales offered scientists an accidental natural experiment—and what they found could reshape how we ...

Consider getting the shingles vaccine. A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that a shingles vaccine reduces the ...

The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be ...

The strongest set of evidence to date indicates that people who had a shingles vaccine had significantly lower odds of ...

Several previous studies have suggested that shingles vaccinations might reduce dementia risk, but most could not exclude the ...

For decades, researchers have searched for a way to slow or prevent dementia. Despite countless studies, solutions remain ...

Taking advantage of a unique public health policy in the UK, a new study has found that receiving the shingles vaccine ...

Seniors who received the vaccine for shingles had a 20% lower risk of dementia, say Stanford researchers who called the ...

The findings suggest that the shingles virus might play a role in causing at least a subset of dementia cases, Geldsetzer ...

A new study has found that getting vaccinated against shingles may reduce the risk of developing dementia by 20% over seven ...

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk ...