A shingles vaccine was tied to a 20% drop in new dementia cases over seven years. • The U.K. rollout created a natural ...

Two new studies suggest that getting a vaccine to protect against a painful case of shingles may be beneficial for memory, too.

It’s fairly common for a medical treatment to cause side effects: think headache, upset stomach, sleepiness, and occasionally more severe side effects. Far more rarely, a side effect provides an ...

Any number of these mechanisms could explain the shingles vaccine’s potential protective effect against dementia. (One of us, Jena, explored these in depth in a commentary published in Nature ...

Older people who avail themselves of the newest shingles vaccine could reap a hidden benefit: A significant drop in their odds of developing dementia. One expert applauded the new findings ...

TUESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The shingles vaccine can do more than protect seniors from painful, blistering rashes. It also appears to protect older folks from dementia, researchers say.

For decades, researchers have searched for a way to slow or prevent dementia. Despite countless studies, solutions remain scarce. But now, a common shingles vaccine might provide an unexpected answer.

Shingles vaccine may cut risk of dementia, study says By Catherine Stoddard Published April 2, 2025 6:41pm CDT Health ...

Researchers tracking dementia cases in UK adults have discovered the shingles vaccine could cut the risk of patients developing the disease. Health data of more than 280,000 adults revealed adults ...

There’s no cure for shingles, but antiviral drugs can help treat it, and there are vaccines. In 2006, the first vaccine for shingles was licensed in the United States, Zostavax. In 2017, a stronger ...

The risk of dementia in those who got a Shingrix shot was 23% lower than in people who got a flu shot and 28% lower in people who got a tDAP vaccine, further supporting the idea that there’s ...