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

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Lower levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol could mean a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.

Adults with high or even low levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol who took statins lowered their risk of dementia in a new study.

The strongest set of evidence to date indicates that people who had a shingles vaccine had significantly lower odds of ...

Several previous studies have suggested that shingles vaccinations might reduce dementia risk, but most could not exclude the ...

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The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

Researchers at Stanford University found evidence that suggests the shingles vaccine lowers the risk of developing dementia.