G etting vaccinated for the viral illness shingles, which causes a painful rash, could potentially be the next best tool in ...

A large natural experiment shows that the herpes zoster vaccine reduces dementia diagnoses by 20% over seven years. The ...

Researchers tracking dementia cases in UK adults have discovered the shingles vaccine could cut the risk of patients ...

A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one — shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to ...

Getting vaccinated appears to significantly reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia ...

And over the past couple of years, observational studies have suggested that the vaccine against shingles may have a protective effect. But it's extremely difficult to do a clinical trial given that ...

Analysis of a Welsh program offering live-attenuated shingles vaccines to people born after a certain date showed a 20 percent relative drop in dementia risk.

Zoster vaccination seems to have a dementia-preventing or dementia-delaying effect, according to a study published online April 2 in Nature. Markus Eyting, Ph.D., from Stanford University in ...

Research showing older adults’ risk of getting dementia fell if they had shingles vaccination another reason to consider ...

The landmark study revealed that individuals who received the shingles vaccine were 20 percent less likely to develop dementia within seven years compared to those who did not get vaccinated. This ...