Help to ease the pain.
A shingles vaccination programme is gradually being introduced across the UK for people in their seventies, the age group most at risk of experiencing severe symptoms following reactivation of the virus. Practice nurse Kathryn Gedman explains how she set up a shingles vaccine clinic.
European Union Geriatric Medicine Society, where data on shingles vaccination were presented, was supported financially by Sanofi Pasteur MSD.
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