Back with a vengeance: Compound offers new hope for treatment of painful adult shingles

Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the University of Georgia and Yale University have discovered a compound with the potential to be more effective than existing agents in treating the very painful blisters known as shingles -- a condition that affects up to 30 percent of Americans, mostly elderly, and for which no specific treatment exists.

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