Two natural experiments in Canada suggest that herpes zoster (shingles or varicella zoster) vaccination averts or delays ...

New findings suggest that the shingles vaccine may do more than prevent a serious infection — it could support longevity by ...

Shingles vaccination not only protects against the disease but may also contribute to slower biological aging in older adults ...

The researchers believe this is likely a measurement issue rather than a health risk. The vaccine creates memory T-cells to ...

A study showed people 70 or older who had the shingles jab scored better on four key aspects of biological aging.

The study showed that people aged 70 or older who had the shingles jab scored better on four key aspects of biological ageing ...

The risk of shingles jumps 11-fold after the first dose of the recombinant shingles vaccine, marketed under the name name Shingrix, but decreases by 73% after the second, according to the results of a ...

The idea that you can "catch" shingles is one of the more common misconceptions I hear from patients who arrive worried they've got it. Often, they've recently been near a child with chickenpox or ...

Two articles focus on recent changes in the use and effects of the varicella-zoster vaccine in older adults and the varicella vaccine in children. These two reports address the effects of ...

This paper uses mathematical models and data analysis to examine the epidemiological implications of possible immunologically mediated links between patterns of varicella and herpes-zoster incidence ...

VARICELLA and herpes zoster are diseases with very different clinical manifestations and age distribution. However, the causative agents of the two syndromes have been shown to be indistinguishable ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Blood-based aging clocks suggest that shingles vaccination may modestly slow molecular aging ...