GSK plans large study to see if shingles vaccine can prevent dementia

July 17, 2026 10:52 AM EDT R&DPharma Can the shin­gles vac­cine pre­vent Alzheimer’s? GSK has a big study to find out Ryan Cross Senior Science Correspondent LON­DON — Over the past sev­er­al years, da­ta sci­en­tists search­ing through na­tion­al health records have no­ticed some­thing sur­pris­ing about peo­ple who had been vac­ci­nat­ed for shin­gles: … Sign up to read this article for free. Get free access to a limited number of articles, plus choose newsletters to get straight to your inbox. SIGN UP LOG IN BECOME A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER