While symptoms subside after three to five weeks, pain can sometimes return in the form of postherpetic neuralgia, he said. This long-term nerve pain occurs where the shingles rash appeared and ...

The symptoms are typically rather vague at first ... "The clearest symptom of shingles is a rash consisting of groups of blisters on reddened skin in the affected areas," says Lommel.

While symptoms subside after three to five weeks, pain can sometimes return in the form of postherpetic neuralgia, he said. This long-term nerve pain occurs where the shingles rash appeared and ...

To combat the rising cases of shingles, a particular scourge for older adults,  the health ministry will add its vaccination ...

SINGAPORE: Some family doctors have seen more cases of shingles over the past two years, with experts estimating that up to ...

In Cantonese, shingles – a virus that causes a painful rash – is known as sang se, or “growing snakes”, because of the way the rash seems to creep like a snake under the skin.

The following information was submitted by GSK.The holidays are here, and there’s no better time to give yourself the gift of staying healthy. An important prev ...