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

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 developing dementia later in life.

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

New research suggests that the shingles vaccine could lower your risk of developing dementia. Here's what the study says and ...

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 ...

A study of over 280,000 adults found that the shingles vaccine reduced dementia risk by 20%, with a stronger effect in women.