Stanford researchers found that adults who received the zoster vaccine for shingles have a lower risk of developing dementia.

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

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

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

G etting vaccinated for the viral illness shingles, which causes a painful rash, could potentially be the next best tool in ...

The study found shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.

They compared people born before and after they were eligible to take the shingles vaccine in a certain part of the UK, ...

Getting vaccinated appears to significantly reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia ...

But at least from a medical perspective, it doesn't really matter. The vaccine is highly effective at preventing severe cases of shingles, and it seems to significantly reduce the frequency of ...

The research is part of a growing understanding about how many factors influence brain health as we age – and what we can do ...

Researchers tracking dementia cases in UK adults have discovered the shingles vaccine could cut the risk of patients ...

A large natural experiment shows that the herpes zoster vaccine reduces dementia diagnoses by 20% over seven years. The ...