Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re over age 50 or have a suppressed immune system, you may have heard your doctor recommend the shingles vaccine. But what ...

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A new shingles vaccine study is in East Tennessee and doctors said the side effects of the shot are far less painful. The Alliance for Multi-Specialty Research (AMR) is one of the centers working with ...

A routine vaccine that millions of older adults receive to prevent painful shingles outbreaks may offer an unexpected bonus: significant protection against dementia. Recent research has uncovered a ...

A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dementia. Over the past several ...

An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. In a new study led by Stanford Medicine, researchers analyzing the ...