Shingles vaccine linked to 20% lower dementia risk in large-scale study, suggesting potential cost-effective prevention strategy.

Seniors who received the vaccine for shingles had a 20% lower risk of dementia, say Stanford researchers who called the ...

Taking advantage of a unique public health policy in the UK, a new study has found that receiving the shingles vaccine ...

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

Shingrix is a onetime vaccination, given in two doses a few months apart. The CDC recommends it starting at age 50 for most ...

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 ...