More than one in five people aged between 15 and 49 globally or 846 million people live with a genital herpes infection, according to an estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO). Every second, ...

Infection with the virus that’s the main cause of cold sores may double a person’s risk of developing dementia, according to a new study. Adding to growing evidence of a link between the two, further ...

People who have had the herpes simplex virus are more than twice as likely to develop dementia than those who have never been infected. The corresponding study was published in the Journal of ...

People who have had the herpes virus at some point in their lives are twice as likely to develop dementia compared to those who have never been infected. A new study from Uppsala University confirms ...

Q: Pretty much everyone I know gets cold sores from time to time. Now I see a study saying that cold sores are somehow connected to Alzheimer's. Can you explain? A: As researchers have worked to ...

It's estimated that almost half of the world's population - about 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 - are infected with (HSV-1), which can cause oral herpes. About half a billion people between ...

ABI-1179 demonstrated a favorable safety profile with all treatment-emergent adverse events being mild and not related to the study treatment. The investigational drug ABI-1179 exceeded targeted ...