Crisugabalin provides significant improvement in average daily pain score and shows promise as a postherpetic neuralgia treatment.

When healthcare providers devalue the pain of marginalized people, it results in inadequate and sometimes life-threatening ...

Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and is a member of the herpes virus group. It is extremely contagious and causes a ...

The vaccine protects against a condition called herpes zoster, more commonly known as shingles. The infection causes a ...

with both pain and rash lasting up to four weeks. Between 10-18% of those who get shingles develop post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), a condition marked by debilitating nerve pain lasting over six months ...

GP Alice Fitzgibbon covers a common condition many people will have heard of – shingles. Shingles is an infection that causes ...

In March 2023, my 94-year-old mother had a shingles episode on the right side of her neck, head, ear and (to a lesser degree) ...

Will the neuropathy ever go away? Your mother unfortunately developed a complication of shingles called postherpetic ...

Will the neuropathy ever go away? -- K.B. ANSWER: Your mother unfortunately developed a complication of shingles called ...

In March 2023, my 94-year-old mother had a shingles episode on the right side of her neck, head, ear and (to a lesser degree) right cheek. The active blisters lasted about three weeks. Since then, she ...

There's a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles ...