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.