A study of more than one million people found the shingles vaccine may lower the risk of heart disease and stroke for up to ...

Shingles is painful, but did you know the vaccine may also help prevent dementia? Learn why I got vaccinated and why it might ...

Treatment with JAK inhibitors was associated with a greater risk of infections compared with biologic therapies in patients with atopic dermatitis.

Genital herpes simplex virus (HSV ... to identify those at risk for unintentional transmission of the virus. One recent study has evaluated sexual partners of persons who have been newly diagnosed ...

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

The shingles vaccine has benefits that stretch beyond protecting older adults from the painful skin condition, a new study ...

The common cold sore virus, which is often caught in childhood, usually stays in the body for life—quietly dormant in the ...

Patients who were positive for cytomegalovirus had more immune cells circulating in their blood before they started ...

The virus that causes shingles is just one of a number of pathogens that may be linked to brain conditions. Here are some of the other bugs scientists have under the microscope.

An professor has shared how she discovered a 'link' between Alzheimer's disease and a common virus that infects most people ...

The lower incidence of dementia seen in adults who received the shingles vaccine is likely not just a correlation, scientists say, based on new results of an observational study.

according to a new South Korean study of more than one million people published in the European Heart Journal. The highly common herpes strain, also called varicella-zoster virus (VZV), can cause ...