You can prevent shingles through vaccination with the Shingrix vaccine. Shingrix is more than 90% effective in preventing shingles for people aged 50 years and older. If you have shingles symptoms, ...

The shingles vaccine not only offers protection against the painful viral infection, a new study suggests that the two-dose shot also may slow the progression of dementia. Shingles, caused by the ...

Shingles. It's incredibly painful, and symptoms can linger for weeks. Worse, for an unlucky few, shingles can morph into post-herpetic neuralgia, one of the most intense of all pain syndromes. In ...

The shingles vaccine may both reduce and slow down dementia. The corresponding study was published in Cell. On September 1st 2013, Wales launched a national vaccination program in which anyone aged 79 ...

New research found that shingles vaccination significantly reduced the likelihood of dementia-related death over the 9-year study period. People with dementia who’ve gotten the shingles vaccine live ...

So many different factors can start a migraine, so it is good that you have an idea of how your body reacts to stress and late nights out with alcohol. I suffer from occasional migraines that can be ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies that target those genes to restore health. When a single gene is the culprit ...

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According to NHS advice, people who use gabapentin may face rare emergencies linked to the medicine. Although it is not officially classed as a painkiller, doctors often prescribe it for nerve pain ...