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 ...

Not everyone who had chickenpox will develop shingles. The illness typically develops in adults 50 and older with weakened ...

The retrospective cohort study included more than 130,000 people in the US. It reveals that the shingles vaccine (called ...

Adults who received the recombinant shingles vaccine Shingrix or the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine Arexvy — both of which contain the AS01 adjuvant — had a lower risk for dementia ...

A new study suggests the shingles vaccine may reduce dementia risk by 20%, providing added benefits along with over 90% effectiveness against shingles and its complications.

This wasn't an isolated finding. Another study of more than 300,000 adults found that among those 70 and older, dementia was less common in those who had received the shingles vaccination.

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk of dementia, too.

The new paper reports that HZ vaccination eligibility decreased the probability of a new dementia diagnosis during the follow-up period of 7.4 years by 1.8 percentage points. According to the authors, ...

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk of dementia, too.

A shingles vaccine could help hxyume/E+/Getty Images via CNN Newsource The shingles vaccine may also reducw the risk of dementia By CNN Newssource today at 6:28 AM Published April 16, 2025 7:46 AM ...

WASHINGTON — A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains.