You don’t need to wait weeks for a doctor's appointment to get relief. We spoke to Superdrug senior pharmacy manager Tahera ...

Shingles is more than a rash. Dr Anirban Chattopadhyay explains how herpes zoster can affect nerves, brain, eyes, ears and ...

People who had chickenpox as children or received the chickenpox vaccine harbor the varicella-zoster virus in their nerve ...

More than 90 percent of U.S. adults have serologic evidence of varicella-zoster virus infection and are at risk for subsequent reactivation, in the form of herpes zoster (shingles). The reactivation ...

Shingles can cause pain that is notoriously difficult to manage and can last for months to years for some people. The pain can be so severe that it causes a significant decline in quality of life and ...

A new case report details how rare sacral herpes zoster disrupted a patient's urinary function, highlighting diagnostic ...

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, according to ...

There's a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles cases impact the eyes, and now, for the first time there's a new treatment ...

Taking an antiviral medication for a year may prevent vision damage associated with shingles that affects the eye, according to research led by faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

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