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

Shingles is a common condition that lies dormant in a third of adults over their lifetime. A pharmacist has shared the key ...

Brooke Shields has teamed up on a health initiative for people over 50 after suffering a near-death experience last year.

“It hurt inside me wherever something ... and he said he wants people to know that shingles can attack at any age and on any part of your body. He talks to his friends and family about the ...

When Nancy Greeley was in her 50s, her sister, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Rochester, told her to get the shingles vaccine. Despite Greeley’s best intentions ...

Yes, you can get the COVID, shingles, and flu vaccines all on the ... A practicing physician Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. Marshall serves on staff at Harvard ...

But after overseeing two expansions of the free shingles vaccine in the past 12 months, Mr Butler was open to Ms Oddy’s plea, prompted by a recent struggle with the painful virus during a trip ...