Studies suggest that the shingles vaccine may help reduce the risk of dementia, especially in older adults. With no cure for ...

Shingles is a viral infection that causes painful rashes. While shingles can occur anywhere on the body, it typically looks ...

Receiving a specific type of shingles vaccine may provide a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events like stroke or heart failure for up to 8 years. With reports of other shingles vaccines protecting ...

Dementia usually impacts older people, and it can be hard to recognize in middle age. Notably, frontotemporal dementia is ...

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’ ...

Vaccines seem like an improbable way to reduce the risk of developing dementia. And yet the research has been accumulating to ...

WBZ-TV's Dr. Mallika Marshall answers a viewer question asking if it is safe to get a second shingles vaccination if it has ...

A new study from the European Society of Cardiology found that receiving the shingles vaccine can lower the risk of heart ...

Older adults vaccinated against herpes zoster, or shingles, had a reduced risk of developing dementia, over a period of 7 years.

I recently read this morning that the shingles vaccine, Shingrix, “may have a protective effect against dementia.” It goes on to say the studies that have been ...

In this study, those who had the Zostavax vaccine had a 3.5% point reduction in a new dementia diagnosis over seven years, ...

In this study, those who had the Zostavax vaccine had a 3.5% point reduction in a new dementia diagnosis over seven years, ...