Vaccines to prevent common and serious infectious diseases have had a greater impact on improving human health than any other medical advance of the 20th century, surpassing even sanitation and ...

A recent study indicates that the shingles vaccine may provide some protection against dementia. If so, the varicella-zoster ...

These two reports address the effects of varicella-zoster vaccination and varicella vaccination. Richard Whitley, who chaired the data and safety monitoring board for the Shingles Prevention Study ...

Access to the free shingles vaccine has been expanded to all immunocompromised people aged 18 and over. But experts fear that ...

Shingles is “one of the worst pains in medicine.” A vaccine is highly effective at preventing it, but many people don’t get ...

The global varicella vaccines market is anticipated to reach a valuation of USD 3,258.6 million in 2024, with projections ...

The P.E.I. government is lowering the age eligibility for the free shingles vaccine from 60 to 50, effective immediately.

Two doses of the vaccine for shingles, Shingrix, are funded for those aged 65 years, but expanding this eligibility would ...

Millions of Aussies can get a free vaccination for painful and debilitating shingles. People who are classified as 'moderate to high risk' aged between 18- 64 now qualify for the immunisation.

A vaccine for the prevention of shingles in adults aged 50 and over and those aged 18 and over at increased risk (from left to right) Dr Alap Gandhi, Country Medical Director of GSK Malaysia and ...

The RSV vaccine is given in one shot. Shingles (herpes zoster) is the reactivation of the chickenpox virus (varicella-zoster virus), causing an outbreak of painful, blistering sores in one of every ...