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 ...

What if one of the most effective tools we have against dementia has been sitting quietly in our medical arsenal all along?

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

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

A big reason that the vaccine may lower the risk of dementia is that it could lower your risk of getting shingles, which ...

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

The varicella-zoster virus—which causes varicella (chickenpox) in childhood and zoster (shingles) after lying dormant in nerve cells and re-activating later in life—is one virus that ...