Calamine lotion can be used to help relieve the itchiness of chickenpox spots [Getty Images] Young children in the UK are being offered protection against chickenpox on the NHS for the first time. It ...

Young children in the UK are being offered protection against chickenpox on the NHS for the first time. It is being added to the list of standard childhood vaccinations from the start of January, and ...

A teenager who had to learn how to walk again after contracting chickenpox when she was two has welcomed new free vaccinations against the illness. Children in Northern Ireland are being offered the ...

Chickenpox will now be added to the NHS childhood routine vaccination programme in what has been described as a “historic milestone”. Health chiefs say the move will boost population health, cut ...

A vaccination programme to protect young children against chickenpox is being rolled out in Wales from today. All children aged 12 to 18 months across the UK will be offered a vaccine for chickenpox - ...

Chickenpox kills up to 20 people a year and can result in dangerous complications like lung infections, seizures and sepsis IT’S a common childhood illness that most people think they can easily spot… ...

Thousands develop serious complications from the varicella virus. Today the NHS rolls out a new jab, alongside measles, mumps and rubella Wes Streeting is secretary of state for health and social care ...

All children aged 12 to 18 months across the UK will be offered a vaccine for chickenpox - also known as Varicella – for the first time. The programme is being introduced following advice from the ...

NHS to administer combined immunisation in move in line with approach in US, Canada, Australia and Germany Children in the UK are to be immunised against chickenpox at the same time as measles, mumps ...

CHICKENPOX jabs will be offered to all children on the NHS for the first time from today. Vaccination against the varicella virus will be added to the measles, mumps and rubella injection in a four-in ...

A teenager who had to learn how to walk again after contracting chickenpox when she was two has welcomed new free vaccinations against the illness. Emily Walls, 18, developed septicaemia and was on a ...