Researchers discovered a connection between Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins, and the herpes HSV-1 virus that is responsible ...

Older adults exposed to the herpes virus behind the common cold sore may see a doubling of their dementia risk, a new study warns. The research, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, is the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Chewing gum made from beans has been shown to reduce the viral load of some strains of herpes and influenza, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.

The question: Do condoms, which provide significant protection against HIV, offer similar protection against herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes? This study: It combined data ...

A new study on herpes infections of the eye helps shed light on the question of viral reinfections by identifying a key protein involved in viral reinfections that could be targeted by antiviral drugs ...

CHICAGO -- Pregnant women infected with the genital herpes virus may face an increased risk of having children who develop schizophrenia and other mental disorders, research suggests. "Whether the ...

CHICAGO — Nearly 25 years after a news magazine declared that an epidemic of genital herpes threatened to undo the sexual revolution, a new study finds an encouraging decline in the percentage of ...

In a recent study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers assessed myocardial infarction (MI) risk after zoster infection. MI has been described as a severe cardiovascular ...

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B.J. Anderson has spent years educating physicians, coaches, parents and athletes in the wrestling community on the importance of preventing and reducing skin infections in the sport. His efforts have ...