When it comes to whether acyclovir needs to be stopped, I assume your doctor was thinking of the old shingles vaccine, ...

A single-center retrospective study in China found a significant association between pain duration and intensity in patients ...

Manipal Hospitals, Broadway successfully handled a rare instance of bilateral Herpes Zoster in Nanda Ghosh, a 74-year-old woman. This is only the fourth documented case of bilateral Herpes Zoster in ...

Shingles and chickenpox are caused by the same virus. After a patient recovers from chickenpox, a common childhood disease, the virus remains dormant in the nervous system and can reactivate later ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the Shingrix vaccine, given in two doses, with the second dose given two to six months after the first. People who get shingles can still ...

Americans develop shingles each year. Here in Oklahoma, one doctor has seen more in a few weeks than he does a year.

In Cantonese, shingles – a virus that causes a painful rash – is known as sang se, or “growing snakes”, because of the way the rash seems to creep like a snake under the skin.

As we age, our immune system naturally becomes less robust, making it harder to fight off infections. For adults over 60, staying up to date on vaccinations is one of the simplest and most effective ...

"Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It's the same virus that causes chickenpox," said Dr. Eugene Fellin, a family medicine physician at Penn State Health Medical Group—Fleetwood.

Twenty percent of under-50s worldwide are infected with genital herpes, with 42 million new cases being recorded in 2020 alone.

According to research conducted in southern Israel, more than 32 percent of shingles patients had cardiovascular diseases ...

Pneumonia can be life-threatening when fluid fills the lungs’ air sacs. In general, a vaccination is in order for all adults 65 and older. Shingles is a reactivation of the virus that causes ...