Many Brits could be unknowingly teetering on the brink of serious health issues, as a leading expert warns that if left ...

The print ads featured a prominent display of a person’s back, highlighting where shingles rashes typically emerge.

Pharmacy superintendent Niamh McMillan highlighted that these individuals are at a high risk of shingles. When you contract ...

A 5-gram tube of Zovirax cream runs more than $200. A month’s supply of valacyclovir (500 milligrams) tablets costs between ...

In this edition of The People’s Pharmacy, Joe and Teresa Graedon also hear from a reader with a question about using ivermectin to treat scabies.

By Keith Roach, M.D. TITLE: 63-year-old debates getting shingles and chicken pox vaccines---DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, yo ...

Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and is a member of the herpes virus group. It is extremely contagious and causes a ...

Also called ‘herpes zoster’, shingles occurs when the varicella zoster virus causing childhood chickenpox re-emerges from sensory ganglion nervous system cells where the virus lies dormant after ...

In the United States, an estimated 12,000 to 52,000 people die every year from flu-related causes. Hundreds of thousands have been hospitalized from this ever-evolving respiratory infection. Older ...

The National Orientation Agency, NOA, in Akwa Ibom State has said the government traced six Mpox cases to one household in the state. This made the government to begin a sensitisation exercise to ...

There's a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles ...

If accepted, the recommendation would be for the chickenpox vaccine to be introduced for all children on the NHS ...