Shingles can strike anyone who had chickenpox when they were young, and the intense pain that can accompany this body rash ...

Salma Khalik's nightmare began on Oct 23, when she felt a pain on the right side of her mouth and jaw. Read more at ...

In Singapore, an estimated 30,000 people suffer from the illness each year. People can get shingles more than once. The ...

“And what seems to have happened, particularly with Covid, is that the ‘switch-off’ mechanism hasn’t happened for a lot of ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column on shingles. I am 66 years old and in fairly good health. I had both Shingrix shots ...

Shingles causes a rash that can feel like 'being burned and electrocuted' at the same time. We look at its symptoms, ...

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Justine Moss speak with Dr Sanjeev Shanker, Family Physician and Emergency Medicine ...

France's shingles vaccination programme has been expanded, with the reimbursement rate extended for people aged 65 and over, ...

One out of three adults aged 50 years or older is at risk of contracting shingles (herpes zoster). After an individual recovers from chickenpox (which they usually caught as a child), the ...

Taking an antiviral medication for a year may prevent vision damage associated with shingles that affects the eye, according to research led by faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

“Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It’s the same virus that causes chickenpox,” said Dr. Eugene Fellin, a ...