Researchers have found in a new study that Pneumococcal vaccination was associated with fewer hospitalizations and a milder ...

Vaxcyte, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCVX) is a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing next-generation pneumococcal conjugate ...

Pneumonia may inflame the air sacs in one or both of your lungs, notes the Mayo Clinic. The sacs can fill with pus or fluid, causing phlegmy coughs. Organisms including fungi, parasites, viruses, and ...

Estimates for 2019-2020 indicate that 23.9% of people aged 19 to 64 years with risk factors for pneumococcal disease have received a pneumococcal vaccine.

Thrombomodulin in plasma reliably reflects severity and bacterial cause in community-acquired pneumonia. A study published in ...

Over the last decade, there have been several updates to pneumococcal vaccinations in adolescents and adults, often leading to confusion among health care providers. Much of this confusion is due ...

The advisors also voted 14-1 to recommend a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) for all PCV-naive adults ages 50 and older. Shortly after the ACIP meeting, CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH ...

Background: Clinical trials and meta-analyses have produced conflicting results of the efficacy of unconjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in adults. We sought to evaluate the vaccine's ...

Key points Meta-analyses of the efficacy of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in adults have produced varied results depending on which trials were included. The current meta-analysis by Huss and ...

I don’t want pneumococcal pneumonia to come slipping up on me." — Terry Bradshaw "I got too much life left," he said. "I don't want pneumonococcal pneumonia to come slipping up on me." ...

Surge in Demand for Pneumococcal Vaccines Paves Way for Partnerships Amidst Government Bodies and Key Manufacturers. The pneumococcal vaccines industry in the U.K. is advancing at a CAGR of 2.9% ...

It’s from the drug company Pfizer Inc., and it informs her that the price tag for the pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar 13 is going up. Again. And it makes her angry.