Peak chickenpox season is growing closer, with the highly contagious disease threatening households and schools across the ...

After talking to your physician, there are a few things you can do to cope with shingles at home. Get enough rest. Use ...

If a rash has recently appeared on your body, you may suspect you have shingles. Generally, shingles lasts an average of four weeks. Shingles is known for the painful rash it causes, and it can appear ...

Many of us think of chickenpox as a childhood illness, a harmless rite of passage that fades into memory once the itchy blisters heal. However, what most people don’t realize is that the virus behind ...

Severe chickenpox is more likely to affect adults, infants, teenagers, pregnant women, and people with a weakened immune system (due to a health condition or medical treatment). But even in ...

With an additional four measles cases reported late Thursday, we have an outbreak on the South Plains. So who is at risk? And ...

At first, much the same. But inevitably, dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them.

I turned 50 during the pandemic and, like most people, I put off all nonessential health care, including my shingles vaccine. Big mistake. When the telltale red bumps of shingles cropped up on my ...

The new non-opioid drug has been approved for the treatment of severe pain, such as that following surgery or an injury.

A new way to grow T cells in the lab enables them to live longer and better destroy cancer cells in a mouse model of melanoma compared to those grown in traditional growth media. The findings have the ...