Taking advantage of a unique public health policy in the UK, a new study has found that receiving the shingles vaccine ...

Researchers exploit a natural experiment in Wales to isolate the vaccine’s protective effect against dementia.

Researchers investigated whether the shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine can help prevent dementia. Previous studies suggest ...

Receipt of zoster vaccine reduces probability of new dementia diagnosis over seven-year period by 3.5 percentage points.

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

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

Study in older adults found that individuals who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia than those who were unvaccinated.

Getting vaccinated against shingles may not only lower risk for the condition — it may offer some protection against dementia ...

Receiving the live-attenuated zoster vaccine (Zostavax) reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis by 3.5 percentage ...

They compared people born before and after they were eligible to take the shingles vaccine in a certain part of the UK, ...