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 face ...

You can develop shingles on the face. The rash looks like a group of small blisters or lesions that can itch, burn, or tingle. With treatment, the lesions and pain should subside in 3 to 5 weeks.

After talking to your physician, there are a few things you can do to cope with shingles at home. Use calamine lotion on ...

But the next day, raised pink welts cropped up, along with pain that she said felt like glass in her skin. Though she suspected shingles based on how people she knew described their experience ...

What happens is that the virus lies dormant in the nervous system, for many years sometimes, and then reemerges as shingles, which causes a painful string of rashes, typically on the face or ...

Caused by the same virus behind chickenpox, shingles is a painful nerve root infection resulting in a skin rash. What does the shingles rash looks like? Who’s at risk? And who needs the shingles ...

There are two different vaccines currently available for shingles. They are both given via an injection into the skin, much like a flu shot would be given. And it is given in one dose, so you just ...

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 ...

Big mistake. When the telltale red bumps of shingles cropped up on my face in the fall of 2020, it triggered a cascade of health effects that still haunt me four years later. Nearly one in three ...