That's what happened to eye surgeon Dr. Elisabeth Cohen, who was forced to stop operating. She tested a new way to treat ...

We usually think of chickenpox as something that only affects children. And while the virus is indeed most common amongst ...

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A bus with scientific pamphlets and educational programs for the elderly began touring 35 cities in nine provinces and ...

It began with a burning pain in her right eye. At first, Elisabeth Cohen thought she’d gotten something in it. But the next ...

After you've had chickenpox, the virus can lie dormant in your body and come back later in life ... In severe shingles cases, prescription pain medications, numbing agents or corticosteroids ...

A simple, extended course of antiviral medication may significantly reduce the risk of eye damage and chronic pain associated with shingles.

Long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment reduces the risk for potentially vision-damaging bouts of inflammation and infection, as well as pain, which occur when shingles affects the eye ...

Once Lowe could speak clearly again, he went back to work at WSOC ... continue to bear the burden of shingles for years — with long-term vision loss or nerve pain. Lowe was only 40 when he ...

Chickenpox is a contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). It causes flu-like symptoms and an itchy rash.

An article published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity reports the findings of a study by researchers based in ...

Positive data from 876-patient head-to-head trial versus Shingrix® shows amezosvatein elicits robust humoral and cellular immune responses ...