Shingles, RSV vaccines may protect older adults from dementia
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 Older US adults who receive the AS01-adjuvanted shingles or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines may be at lower risk for dementia in the next 18 months, University of Oxford researchers write in npj Vaccines. Because no difference was observed between the two vaccines, both of which contain the AS01 adjuvant to boost immune response, the authors suggest that AS01 itself may contribute to the lower dementia risk. The team analyzed
