Shingles is a painful blistering rash caused by the chickenpox virus that can last for weeks, months, or even years, and can cause blindness if it gets near the eye, and doctors recommend that people ...

Many people think shingles—a viral infection that causes a painful rash—is something only older people deal with, given that the risk generally increases with age. But Jacquelyn Gill, a professor at ...

Thanks to its hallmark rash, which is characterized by red to brownish bumps that blister, leak fluid, and scab over, shingles, a.k.a. herpes zoster, is usually simple to diagnose. In its earliest ...