A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains. A new study found shingles vaccination cut older adults' ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New research has linked the shingles vaccine to a reduced risk of dementia, but who is eligible for the jab and what are the ...

The study tracked people in Wales who were around 80 when receiving the world’s first-generation shingles vaccine over a decade ago. Now, Americans 50 and older are urged to get a newer ...

And "women seem to benefit more," important as they're at higher risk of dementia.The study tracked people in Wales who were around 80 when receiving the world's first-generation shingles vaccine ...