Your roof needs frequent inspections to prevent damage to your shingles. Schedule an inspection once a year to find signs of paint bubbling, peeling, or chipping. After an inspection, you may need ...

Examples of peripheral neuropathic itching include brachioradial pruritus ... or paraesthesia following herpes zoster (shingles). It occurs more frequently in individuals older that 60.

Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus, or VZV — the same herpesvirus that causes chickenpox. After a person has ... able to reduce the amount of neuropathic pain medications that ...

who are at the greatest risk for debilitating chronic pain after shingles. "Our results support changes in clinical practice, with suppressive valacyclovir recommended to reduce new, worsening, and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Crunchyroll‘s next original series will be an anime series adaptation of the Tapas Entertainment-published webcomic The Beginning After the End. Set to drop next year, the series will ...

Long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment reduces the risk for potentially vision-damaging bouts of inflammation and infection, as well as pain, which occur when shingles affects the eye, according ...

In addition, participants on valacyclovir were found to have a shorter duration of pain at 18 months and needed significantly less neuropathic pain medication. Reducing the use of such medications ...

A 15-year-old girl diagnosed with cancer after developing an “unbearable” itch which was initially mistaken for an allergic reaction is urging people to “trust your gut instinct”. Deborah Connell, 48, ...

Adam Azim says his super-lightweight bout with Ohara Davies on Saturday, live on Sky Sports, is his "toughest test" so far, but one he is itching to get in the ring for. The 22-year-old holds an ...

A day after the Kremlin assured Russians that Vladimir Putin was healthy despite multiple hospital examinations, he was seen repeatedly scratching his face on a trip outside Moscow. He had entered ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin was seen repeatedly scratching his face on a trip outside Moscow a day after the Kremlin assured he was healthy despite revealing that he had had multiple hospital ...

That’s what he did in his new paper to test the emerging idea that dementia can be caused by the shingles virus. Social scientists have been using these methods for decades, but very few ...