Alerts have been issued about the rising number of chickenpox cases in Northern New South Wales this year. Meanwhile, ...

From the moment you experience the first symptoms of shingles—a skin-tingling sensation followed by a rash on one side of your body—you’ll want to know: How long does shingles last? Shingles—also ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 56-year-old male who never had the chicken pox. When the first of my children was born, I had blood tests done to see if I’d ever been exposed. I had not, so I received the ...

If you’ve ever had shingles–a blistering rash that plagues about 1 million Americans each year, most of them elderly–chances are you know how devastating it can be. And if you’ve never had ...

A fascinating collaborative study in 2022, between researchers at the University of Oxford and Tufts University, suggested two common viruses could be working in tandem to trigger the earliest stages ...