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Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were more likely to later develop dementia, researchers reported. That does ...

Medical News Today looks at four recent studies to examine which aspects of health and behavior can influence a person's risk ...

A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be ...

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A new study from Mass General Brigham (MGB), which identified 17 shared risk factors all linked to stroke, dementia and ...

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

Now it turns out the shingles vaccine may have an added benefit: reducing the risk of dementia, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. It’s a welcome discovery for people who ...