Shingles is “one of the worst pains in medicine.” A vaccine is highly effective at preventing it, but many people don’t get ...

My hands shook as I texted my husband. I felt unmoored in my body, as if I’d awoken in a different house than the one where I ...

While red and itchy like other rashes, the shingles rash is otherwise very distinct. Vesicles (fluid-filled sacs) are ...

Despite having the best intentions, many people experience similar lapses in judgment. While habits like exercising and ...

PHN is characterised by pain lasting from three months to several years after the rash subsides, and it is also the most ...

The Food and Drug Administration had recently approved a new drug for the treatment of atopic dermatitis (eczema), which can ...

Liverpool comic Chris McCausland is married to a woman from South America and the different climates the pair grew up in ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I received the pneumonia vaccination (Pneumovax 23) two weeks ago, and I was OK immediately afterward, apart from having a sore arm for a day ... As far as the shingles vaccine goes, I ...

For someone with not one, but two columns – not bragging, just stating facts – also bragging a little – I am a deeply private ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the targeted interleukin (IL)-13 inhibitor lebrikizumab (Ebglyss) for ...

Ruxolitinib can cause cytopenia, the most prominent adverse event (AE). There are rates of anemia and thrombocytopenia in ...

Bo Wagner is pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, North Carolina, a widely traveled evangelist and the author ...