Shingles rashes typically develop on the chest, neck, forehead, and lower back, but they can also appear anywhere on the body, including the face and scalp. Pain may peak as you notice a rash ...

A team of researchers, led by James Mbinta, believes the shingles vaccine could play a crucial role in reducing the risk of ...

Shingles typically start with tingly, prickly skin (I felt like I was getting a tattoo on my forehead) and develop into a painful, itchy red rash with fluid-filled blisters and scabs within one to ...

“It’s like a poison ivy rash that won’t go away,” Fellin described. Non-life-threatening, shingles can happen at any age, but it most typically affects people with stress, compromised ...

The symptoms can last for 3 to 5 weeks. Some people also get postherpetic neuralgia, which is pain that continues after recovery from the shingles rash. The older you are, the more likely you are ...

Many of us think of chickenpox as a childhood illness, a harmless rite of passage that fades into memory once the itchy blisters heal. However, what most people don’t realize is that the virus behind ...

A friend asked for a column on shingles. Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox, and ...

These are often contracted in childhood as a case of chickenpox but can reactivate in later life to cause shingles, a painful and potentially serious condition that causes a blistering rash.

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