As you say, not all trials found a benefit, but the largest trial found that intrathecal injections — which are similar to ...

Long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment reduces the risk for potentially vision-damaging bouts of inflammation and infection, ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD You can develop shingles on the face. The rash looks like a group of small ...

Q: Am I a doomed man? When I was 25, I survived a battle with testicular cancer. The good news is that 45 years later, after ...

Starting antiviral therapy immediately prevents the chance of developing severe nerve pain called postherpetic neuralgia. It’s oftentimes debilitating with little effective treatment.

A study by researchers at the University of Bristol exploring patients’ understanding and experience of shingles has found ...

I agree that your PV and its treatment with hydroxyurea may have predisposed you to the complication of shingles that you had, called postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). You are quite right that the pain ...