Pritelivir met its primary endpoint of superior lesion healing, achieving a 62.7% lesion healing rate compared to 34.0% with standard-of-care ...

People who have had the herpes simplex virus are more than twice as likely to develop dementia than those who have never been infected. The corresponding study was published in the Journal of ...

Learn what scientific research and experts say about the evidence for common home remedies for herpes, including honey, lemon balm, and petroleum jelly.

Investigational antiviral pritelivir demonstrates efficacy and improved tolerability over current treatments for refractory HSV in high-risk patients.

The incidence of neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in the UK and Ireland increased dramatically over 15 years, and outcomes remained poor, with mortality and long-term neurologic ...

Infection with the virus that’s the main cause of cold sores may double a person’s risk of developing dementia, according to a new study. Adding to growing evidence of a link between the two, further ...

Defects in a single protein involved in cell death may impair the immune system's ability to combat a herpes viral infection in the central nervous system, scientists have found in new research that ...

A special type of chewing gum can 'trap' and neutralize some influenza and herpes viruses, according to new experiments from scientists in the US and Finland. The herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2 (HSV-1 ...

Herpes’ astronomical abundance and ability to infect nerve cells should regularly lead to devastating infections of the brain, known as herpes encephalitis. But it doesn’t. New research reveals why… ...

Researchers have used advanced microscopy and computational modeling to show how herpesvirus infection affects host-cell nucleus structure.

A recent international research project has used advanced microscopy techniques and computational modeling to discover why ...