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 ...

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

Receipt of zoster vaccine reduces probability of new dementia diagnosis over seven-year period by 3.5 percentage points.

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

A large natural experiment shows that the herpes zoster vaccine reduces dementia diagnoses by 20% over seven years. The ...

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

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

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

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

TUESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The shingles vaccine can do more than protect seniors from painful, blistering ...