Readers have sent me many follow-up questions after my recent shingles vaccine column. It’s great to see your interest, and I wanted to answer the most common questions. To recap, shingles is caused ...

Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is an infection that causes a painful rash. It often starts with tingling pain, headaches and tiredness and then can lead to a painful rash with fluid-filled ...

Public-health experts were pleased last month when a study showed that GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental shingles vaccine is much more effective than the established Merck vaccine. In the long run, the ...

In case you missed our earlier post and Radio Boston segment on the shingles vaccine, here's the CliffsNotes version: Whether to get the shingles vaccine is a complex personal decision, and here are ...

Thanks for joining our Jan. 26 live chat on shingles, a viral infection that affects more than 1 million people a year. Anyone who’s had the chicken pox can get the painful rash, though senior ...

We asked Dr. Richard Greenberg, the Belinda Mason Carden and Paul Mason Professor of HIV/AIDS Research and Education at the University of Kentucky, to answer a few basic questions about shingles and ...

Q: I simply can’t believe that you were able to get a full half page in today’s (Dec. 15) edition devoted to an article about shingles that fails to (even once) mention the significant shortage of the ...