DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has ...

A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I'm one of the 1% who has never had, nor been ...

For some, the shingles virus remains dormant for the rest of a person's life without causing any problems, notes Robert ...

Both chickenpox and shingles are caused by the varicella-zoster virus, says Sharon Curhan, MD, ScM, a physician and epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and is a member of the herpes virus group. It is extremely contagious and causes a ...

In March 2023, my 94-year-old mother had a shingles episode on the right side of her neck, head, ear and (to a lesser degree) ...

Elisabeth J. Cohen, MD, a professor of ophthalmology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, designed the study, after she was, herself, affected by shingles-related vision loss years ago. The study ...

Doctors say about 8% of shingles cases impact the eyes, and now, for the first time there's a new treatment plan that might help. Friday, October 25th 2024, 12:11 pm By: News 9 ...

Ocular shingles begins in the nerve connecting the ... Eye Disease Study (ZEDS), an eight-year-long study conducted at 95 medical centers across the United States, Canada, and New Zealand.

"The results of this study provide convincing evidence for using long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment to reduce eye disease in HZO and decrease pain from shingles." Conducted in 95 medical ...