The patient had previously seen a physician, was diagnosed with shingles, and was prescribed acyclovir 800 mg by mouth five times daily for 10 days. She had taken oatmeal baths and used a topical ...

Antiviral shingles treatments include acyclovir, famciclovir, and valacyclovir. These medications are most beneficial when taken within three days of the rash, which is why early diagnosis of the ...

In the current treatment era and in the absence of recurrent herpes simplex outbreaks, any value for chronic acyclovir administration, even at the most well-proven dose of 3.2 g/day, is questionable.

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

A study by researchers at the University of Bristol exploring patients’ understanding and experience of shingles has found that many had a limited understanding of the illness before diagnosis and ...

GlaxoSmithKline places its shingles vaccine Shingrix among its top prospects, with peak sales potential of almost $6 billion. Now, Pfizer and BioNTech are joining forces to try to grab a slice of ...

Shingles is a funny-sounding name for a seriously painful disease. How painful? That’s hard to put into words. Printable ones ...

I read your recent column on shingles. I am 66 and in fairly good health. I had both Shingrix shots about five years ago and take hydroxyurea for polycythemia vera (PV).

Some of the instruments produced within the Council of Europe have played a decisive role in the teaching of so-called “foreign” languages by promoting methodological innovations and new approaches to ...