Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Justine Moss speak with Dr Sanjeev Shanker, Family Physician and Emergency Medicine ...

Shingles can strike anyone who had chickenpox when they were young, and the intense pain that can accompany this body r ...

Shingles can strike anyone who had chickenpox when they were young, and the intense pain that can accompany this body rash ...

Dr. Leah Smith, PharmD and Dr. Lisa Smith, PharmD, explain why if you are 50 years or older, you should ask your pharmacist about your risk and about vaccination.

Shingles is not contagious, but someone with an active rash can transmit the virus to other people through direct skin-to-skin contact. Shingles — also known as herpes zoster — is caused by ...

When you’re thinking about getting your flu vaccine, you might consider getting your shingles vaccine too if you qualify.

Caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox – Shingles is an extremely painful condition that ...

Not all trials found a benefit, but the largest trial found that intrathecal injections led to excellent or good pain relief ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column on shingles. I am 66 years old and in fairly good health. I had both Shingrix shots ...

A shingles rash looks like a cluster of tiny, fast-growing blisters on a red base of skin. The blisters quickly merge, rupture, and crust over. A shingles outbreak almost always develops on one side ...

SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MOH) will not subsidise the cost of the shingles vaccine because of its high price. A check by The Straits Times found that the price of the two doses of the ...