Researchers exploit a natural experiment in Wales to isolate the vaccine’s protective effect against dementia.

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

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

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

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

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

A big reason that the vaccine may lower the risk of dementia is that it could lower your risk of getting shingles, which ...

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

Scientists now say a shingles shot may also protect against dementia. Researchers compared health data from people who did ...

Getting vaccinated against shingles can reduce the risk of developing dementia, a large new study finds. The results provide some of the strongest evidence yet that some viral infections can have ...

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