People aged 50 and over and those who are immunocompromised are more at risk of getting shingles, as well as developing a ...

Perioral dermatitis is a rash that appears as clusters of inflamed skin and small raised bumps around the mouth and nose. The ...

The NHS has listed what it believes to be the 20 top most painful conditions a person can suffer from. While there are ...

Many of us think of chickenpox as a childhood illness — a harmless rite of passage that fades into memory once the itchy ...

A study by researchers at the University of Bristol exploring patients’ understanding and experience of shingles has found ...

with the potential not only to prevent the onset of skin cancer but also to treat early-stage conditions in organ transplant patients. The necessity for such a treatment arises from the reality ...

Curevo Vaccine (Curevo), a privately-held clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing varicella zoster virus (VZV) vaccines with improved tolerability and accessibility, today ...

Millions of Brits can skip the GP queue this winter and head straight to their local pharmacist. Amid warnings a ‘quad-emic’ of flu, covid, RSV and norovirus, doctors and hospital medics are battling ...

The annual incidence of herpes zoster (HZ; shingles), which is caused by the ... and often painful rash across a specific band of skin related to the distribution of a specific dermatome.