We tend to think of COVID-19 as a respiratory illness. But, like many viruses, COVID can also affect your skin and cause ...

If the rash only appears on one side of your body, it's likely to be shingles; if it's on both sides, it's probably not. The infection can last up to four weeks, but pharmacists can provide treatment ...

Rare but serious side effects include rash, itching, yellowing of the skin ... a specific type of nerve pain called post-herpetic neuralgia that often follows a shingles' diagnosis. In addition to ...

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

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 exposed to, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella-zoster virus ...