A shingles vaccine was tied to a 20% drop in new dementia cases over seven years. • The U.K. rollout created a natural ...

It’s fairly common for a medical treatment to cause side effects: think headache, upset stomach, sleepiness, and occasionally more severe side effects. Far more rarely, a side effect provides an ...

The retrospective cohort study included more than 130,000 people in the US. It reveals that the shingles vaccine (called ...

Two studies from July 2024 revealed that the shingles vaccine may help prevent dementia, underscoring the virus's broader effects on the brain. To better understand the connection, […] ...

Any number of these mechanisms could explain the shingles vaccine’s potential protective effect against dementia. (One of us, Jena, explored these in depth in a commentary published in Nature ...

There’s no cure for shingles, but antiviral drugs can help treat it, and there are vaccines. In 2006, the first vaccine for shingles was licensed in the United States, Zostavax.

Researchers tracking dementia cases in UK adults have discovered the shingles vaccine could cut the risk of patients developing the disease. Health data of more than 280,000 adults revealed adults ...

Older people who avail themselves of the newest shingles vaccine could reap a hidden benefit: A significant drop in their odds of developing dementia. One expert applauded the new findings ...

Shingles vaccines may reduce dementia risk, two large new studies suggest CNN July 30, 2024, 2:00 PM ...

The risk of dementia in those who got a Shingrix shot was 23% lower than in people who got a flu shot and 28% lower in people who got a tDAP vaccine, further supporting the idea that there’s ...

There’s no cure for shingles, but antiviral drugs can help treat it, and there are vaccines. In 2006, the first vaccine for shingles was licensed in the United States, Zostavax. In 2017, a stronger ...