There's a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles cases impact the eyes, and now, for the first time there's a new treatment ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The University of Arkansas for Medical sciences' Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institutes is looking for participants for a national, multicenter clinical trial concerning the ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Key Takeaways Shingles can cause a painful rash with blisters that might appear on ...

Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox. If you’ve had chickenpox, the virus can lie dormant in your body’s nerve tissue for years when suddenly it’s ...

The varicella-zoster virus is responsible for about 1 million new shingles cases in the U.S. each year—and shingles vision side effects occur in about 80,000 of them. Despite the relative rarity of ...

There’s a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles cases impact the eyes, and now, for the first time there’s a new treatment ...

Shingles, a painful, blistering skin rash caused by the same virus as chicken pox, has a sister disease, herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO), or ocular shingles. HZO is a similar-looking infection that ...

Research has shown that since 2008, the percentage of elderly people with shingles has remained about the same but an increase in cases has been identified among younger adults. Over 50% of shingle ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of the cases referred to me for management of dry eye, many turn out to be manifestations of nerve damage ...