Objective To estimate the incidence of herpes zoster (HZ) and the incremental healthcare resource utilisation (HRU) and costs ...

Results of a pooled analysis showed patients with rheumatoid arthritis who take upadacitinib may be at increased risk of herpes zoster. A new pooled analysis suggested patients with rheumatoid ...

BOSTON — The herpes zoster vaccine can be safely used in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and spondyloarthropathies who are being treated with biologic agents, according to the ...

When Lauren went to her doctors with stinging clusters of sores on her genitals, she assumed the pain was from a urinary tract infection. But at the OB-GYN, her doctor swabbed the bumps and told her ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Patients with inflammatory bowel disease had a higher incidence of herpes zoster than the general ...

Get up to speed on herpes simplex virus (HSV-1/HSV-2) epidemiology, novel antibodies, vaccine development, and cure ...

Herpes zoster is the manifestation of reactivated latent varicella zoster virus in the sensory ganglia. This syndrome often starts with a prodrome of malaise, headache and photophobia. The typical ...

Vaccination rates for pneumococcal and herpes zoster vaccines are often suboptimal in veterans with chronic inflammatory diseases who are taking biologic medications. Targeted quality improvement ...

VARICELLA and herpes zoster are diseases with very different clinical manifestations and age distribution. However, the causative agents of the two syndromes have been shown to be indistinguishable ...

William Halford met people with herpes in hotel rooms near his laboratory, and injected them with a experimental herpes vaccine. Three years before launching an offshore herpes vaccine trial, an ...

The FDA has approved the drug Famvir as the first and only one-day antiviral treatment for recurrent genital herpes and cold sores in people with healthy immune systems. The drug’s maker, Novartis ...

Family doctors and patients with herpes are poorly informed about the viral infection, indicate the results of an article in Sexually Transmitted Infections. Doctors believed that three out of four of ...