Shingles News

• Shingles clinic set for March 2
  CRYSTAL LAKE – The McHenry County Department of Health has available appointments for its shingles clinic set for March 2. […]
• Texas A&M University-Texarkana student diagnosed with viral meningitis
  Texas A&M University has confirmed a student enrolled during the current spring 2012 semester at Texas A&M University-Texarkana has been diagnosed with viral meningitis. […]
• Vaccine lowers odds of getting shingles, severity
  BLOOMINGTON — Shingles is misunderstood and underestimated. “Most people don’t understand what causes it,” said Dr. Thomas Murphy, a family medicine physician with OSF Medical Group-Reynolds Street in Pontiac. “They lump it with other rashes." […]
• Incomparable pain of shingles a vivid memory for Bloomington man
  BLOOMINGTON — Sid Swearingen was accustomed to pain. […]
• North Carolina Mutual Drug Selects Patented Zymaderm™ for its Painless, Safe and Effective Treatment of Molluscum ...
  Naturopathix announces that North Carolina Mutual Drug distributors selects ZymaDerm™ for its painless, safe, effective, patented treatment of molluscum contagiosum for distribution to leading pharmacies in the South East. It joins distributors Smith Drug and drugstore chains that include Walgreens's and Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacies that sell ZymaDer […]
• Somerset Berkley High wrestling team exposed to shingles at tourney; 2 sent home
  Members of the high school wrestling team were exposed to shingles at a state tournament, leading the school to send two students to be tested and canceling of wrestling and cheerleading activities. Two students who had open wounds or rashes were sent home to be tested for shingles and or MRSA, a type of staph bacteria, according to an email sent from the ad […]
• Shingles blow amid vaccine shortage
  NHS plans to immunise older people against shingles have suffered a setback owing to a shortage of vaccine. […]