Scientists are developing all sorts of potential new treatments to tackle the most difficult cancer cases—including some that ...

Federal health officials are reporting a significant decrease in herpes infections over the past 15 years, even as researchers are still stymied in trying to create a vaccine against the lifelong sexu ...

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 ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and La Jolla Institute for Immunology, published today in Nature Microbiology, reveals an opportunity for developing a therapy against ...

University of Southern California researchers have found a way to rebrand this oft-embarrassing sore subject by genetically ...

The study found 42 percent of blacks tested positive for herpes type 2, a decline of only 4 percent since 1994. “Maybe we’ve finally gotten through to the young people that they need to change ...

A study in animals -- mice, rabbits and guinea pigs -- shows a new way to keep herpes viruses in abeyance in their hosts, by altering how genes are turned off and on.

Herpes simplex virus type 1 is generally linked to fever blisters and genital herpes and type 2 causes genital sores. A study published Wednesday shows progress toward a vaccine but hardly perfection.

In a study published Thursday in the journal Neuron, researchers say they’ve found strong evidence to suggest that two strains of the human herpes virus – 6A and 7 – may contribute to the ...

But the study doesn't prove that herpes viruses are involved in Alzheimer's, says Dr. Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on Aging, which helped fund the research.

Older people who had the herpes simplex virus at some point in their lives are twice as likely to develop dementia later in life than those who were never infected with the virus, according to a ...

Herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1, is a common infection behind oral sores and carried by nearly 3.7 billion people across the world under the age of 50, while dementia affects nearly 55 ...