Shingles took down 26-year-old Tyrese Haliburton. Rules effectively ban young adults from getting the vaccine that prevents ...

Most people have a virus hiding in their cells. It’s probably been there for years, and it could reactivate anytime. This virus, varicella-zoster, causes both chickenpox and shingles, a painful rash ...

Brenda Ogden lost her waterproof prosthetic leg 10 months ago, and with it, her zest for swimming. Then a local fossil hunter stumbled upon it. By Isabella Kwai The last time Brenda Ogden saw her leg ...

DEMENTIA IS tragically common among the elderly. In 2021 57m people worldwide were thought to have the condition. Ageing is a risk factor for many other ailments too, ranging from chronic inflammation ...

Older adults vaccinated against shingles have lower dementia risk, a new study says. Shingles vaccination linked to lower dementia risk, more evidence suggests. Image credit: Luis Velasco/Getty Images ...

It’s common. One in three people in the United States will have shingles in their lifetime. The risk rises after 50 and patients say it’s nothing like the chicken pox they had as children. Kelli Olson ...

Every three seconds, someone, somewhere in the world, develops dementia. The number of people living with the condition is projected to rise dramatically, doubling from 78 million in 2020 to 139 ...

New research shows that the shingles vaccine not only reduces inflammation but may also slow the aging process. Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Chances are, if you were born before 1980, you had chickenpox at some point. Today, the highly contagious disease is rare in the U.S., owing to the efficacy of the vaccine, but the varicella-zoster ...

Share on Pinterest Can the shingles vaccine help slow biological aging? Pictured: Elizabeth Gomez, 54, of Huntington Park, right, receives a Prevnar and shingles vaccine by pharmacy manager Sandra ...

When a person thinks of aging, they normally think of their chronological age and how many birthdays they’ve had so far. Over the last few years, there has been more talk about how people can slow ...

The shingles vaccine may promote longevity, according to new research. Older adults who got the vaccine showed slower overall biological aging on average than unvaccinated participants. The findings ...