The decision lowered the minimum recommended age by 15 years. U.S. health officials on Wednesday recommended that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other ...

In adults living with HIV, the 21-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) V116 was well tolerated and effective against all 21 target serotypes. The immune responses were comparable to those ...

(StatePoint) Pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung disease that can disrupt your life for weeks and even land you in the hospital. Medical experts want you to know that there ...

A college student has died and two people are being treated after cases of meningitis in Reading, Berkshire, the UK Health ...

A new vaccine for pneumococcal disease will be tested under an international trial aiming to provide greater protection to babies against the common infection that causes pneumonia, sinusitis and ...

Merck's pneumococcal vaccine showed strong immune responses in children and teens who are at higher risk of serious illness in a late-stage study, the drugmaker said on Thursday. The shot, Capvaxive, ...

—Among adults, coverage and preventable burdens were lowest for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) 15 and highest for PCV31, with PCV21 preventing notable burdens of both acute respiratory ...

Findings showed Capvaxive was noninferior to PPSV23 for each of the 12 serotypes present between the 2 vaccines. Topline data were announced from a phase 3 trial evaluating Merck’s 21-valent ...

Pneumonia, an infection that causes inflammation in the air sacs of the lungs and fills them with pus or fluid, causes 1.2 million emergency room visits and 41,000 deaths per year, according to data ...

See more on Vaxcyte's (PCVX) and VAX-31’s broad pneumococcal vaccine pipeline, strong cash runway, and key 2026–2027 trial ...

Kerala recently became the first Indian state to publicly fund pneumonia vaccines for adults from poor socio-economic backgrounds, in a bid to reduce deaths from life-threatening respiratory ...

It comes after an outbreak in Kent earlier this year when two people died, and in Dorset last month where three young people ...