The Merck vaccine is a regimen designed to prevent the onset of shingles, which is caused by the reemergence of dormant chicken pox virus.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the ...

Merck (MRK) is cautiously optimistic that Zostavax, a shingles vaccine, will finally live up to its potential, says the Wall Street Journal. Justin Boone breaks down which players have the easiest ...

Dec 5 (Reuters) - People with dementia who received a shingles vaccine were significantly less likely to die from dementia than those who didn’t get the shot, according to findings of a large study, ...

Elderly individuals inoculated with a shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to eventually receive a dementia diagnosis in the following seven years, a new study argues. The study authors based that ...

Getting a shingles vaccine may help with more than the viral infection that causes painful rashes — new research shows it can also lower the risk of heart disease. In a study, published Monday in the ...