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News items on 'Herpes Zoster (shingles)'
Shingles 'increases chance of stroke'
(The Scotsman 09/10/2009)
HAVING shingles can increase the risk of a stroke by almost a third, according to scientists. The risk is significantly greater when the infection, caused by the chickenpox virus, involves the eyes. Shingles - properly known as herpes zoster - is a painful skin rash that can occur years after a bout of chickenpox, when the dormant virus reawakens.
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Shingles 'risk' of arthritis drug
(World health - EU Monitor 18/02/2009)
Some popular treatments for rheumatoid arthritis could increase the risk of the painful condition shingles, a German study suggests. Anti-TNF (anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha) therapy drugs can slow the progress of disease and help to reduce some of the worst symptoms. But some of them may make patients more vulnerable to shingles, a skin disease which produces sore, itchy blisters.
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