If you're over age 50 or have a suppressed immune system, you may have heard your doctor recommend the shingles vaccine. But ...

Shingles — also known as zoster, herpes zoster or zona — is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters involving a limited area. Typically the rash occurs on either the left or ...

The oldest sitting member of the Senate, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is recovering at home after a recent hospitalization secondary to the viral infection called shingles, according to multiple ...

The first time I was diagnosed with shingles, I thought I was going crazy. I was young — in my late twenties — and thought only older people got shingles. The thought I might be breaking out in a ...

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Tingling, numbness, or pain on the skin Blisters full of fluid that ooze when they open Soreness around the eyes or ears that make hearing and seeing a bit harder Numbness Skin sensitivity Mayo Clinic ...

The shingles vaccine may offer a protective effect against developing dementia, as well as “therapeutic potential” for those ...

When Lisa Drover of Edmonds was 53, she awakened one morning to a vague tingling sensation on her left side and abdomen. By the next day, the sensation had turned into a mild stinging, which became ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Over 90% of the world population has the virus that causes chickenpox lying dormant in their nervous system. Most people contract the varicella zoster virus, or VZV, when they get ...