A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia
Have you ever read a paper with a title that told you what the scientists did, but not what they found? Sure, some great articles are actually about what the scientists did, and we mentioned this in a previous Snippet. But now consider an important new paper in Nature this week. I’ll spoil the ending: the authors report compelling evidence, in older humans, that vaccination against shingles can provide significant protection against dementia. That’s big and exciting news! Why, then,…
