With advancing age, staying on top of medical concerns can be a challenge. There are prostate exams, mammograms, cancer screenings, diabetes checks and plenty more. But shingles, an illness that is ...

The Shingrix vaccine for shingles is not a live vaccine. It’s made from modified virus DNA. Shingles is a viral infection caused by herpes zoster, the same virus responsible for chickenpox. It can ...

Shingles (herpes zoster) is a viral infection that affects the nerves. It usually produces a painful rash with blisters. The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes chickenpox. Then, it lays dormant in ...

Q. There is a vaccine to help prevent shingles, but what if you are not sure if you ever had chickenpox? My hubby turns 60 this fall, and he is not sure if he ever had it. Should he get the shingles ...

The idea that you can "catch" shingles is one of the more common misconceptions I hear from patients who arrive worried they've got it. Often, they've recently been near a child with chickenpox or ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Have you ever heard of a fully vaccinated 79-year-old woman getting a repeat case of shingles? This is actually my fourth time having it. My first occurrence of shingles was when I was ...

Internal shingles, or zoster sine herpete (ZSH), is a rare condition caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and presents with typical shingles symptoms but without the characteristic skin rash.

Dear Dr. Roach: Have you ever heard of a fully vaccinated 79-year-old woman getting a repeat case of shingles? This is actually my fourth time having it. My first occurrence of shingles was when I was ...

Singer Ed Sheeran has revealed a shingles diagnosis, spotlighting a painful viral infection often misunderstood. Here's what ...