Stanford researchers found that adults who received the zoster vaccine for shingles have a lower risk of developing dementia.

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

The study found shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.

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

New research suggests that the shingles vaccine could lower your risk of developing dementia. Here's what the study says and ...

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

Shingrix is a onetime vaccination, given in two doses a few months apart. The CDC recommends it starting at age 50 for most ...

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

Scientists now say a shingles shot may also protect against dementia. Researchers compared health data from people who did ...

Getting vaccinated against shingles can reduce the risk of developing dementia, a large new study finds. The results provide some of the strongest evidence yet that some viral infections can have ...

G etting vaccinated for the viral illness shingles, which causes a painful rash, could potentially be the next best tool in ...