Children in Wales as young as one are to be offered protection against chickenpox. A new vaccination programme launched in Wales on January 2 will offer the varicella vaccine to all children aged 12 ...

The bitter Cardiff cold, the dawn half-light, and the radio-static pulse of callouts are the same as every shift over the past year, but as paramedic Angie Dymott and her colleague Lynda Stephens ...

A vaccine for shingles could protect against dementia according to a new study that took advantage of a quirk in Wales' vaccine rollout scheme. Testing such a theory is challenging, but a team led by ...

Zoster vaccination reduced dementia risk in Wales by 3.5 percentage points over 7 years. This corresponded to a 20% relative reduction in dementia risk. The study's unusual design helped circumvent ...