CNN: What vaccine is recommended to prevent shingles? Who should get it? Wen: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends two doses of the recombinant zoster vaccine, called Shingrix, ...

A recent article by Harvard Medical School discussed an unexpected benefit that the shingles vaccine might provide ...

Shingles, caused by varicella-zoster virus, is a painful infection that can lead to serious complications if left untreated.

Analysis of a Welsh program offering live-attenuated shingles vaccines to people born after a certain date showed a 20 percent relative drop in dementia risk.

Previous research has shown a link between the shingles vaccine and dementia — for example, a 2024 study by the University of Oxford found that the newer recombinant shingles vaccine ...

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The current study assessed dementia risk in people who had received the older vaccine, which used a live-attenuated form of the virus. Shingrix is a recombinant zoster vaccine. David Cutler ...

A large quasi-experimental study in Australia found that adults eligible for free shingles vaccination based on their date of ...