The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that American adults over the age of 50 receive the ...

Respiratory virus season has arrived, and hopefully you’re up to date on vaccinations that can help prevent infectious diseases including COVID, the flu, whooping cough, and respiratory syncytial ...

Opens in a new tab or window The Gram-positive bacterium known as Streptococcus pneumoniae causes pneumococcal ... manifestations that include pneumonia, invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD ...

Just one in four (25%) people at high risk of pneumococcal disease, an infection that causes pneumonia—children younger than 2, adults older than 64, and those with certain chronic health ...

At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 97 patients with pneumonia went to the emergency room between September and November, ...

The severity of someone’s illness depends on the microbe that is causing it, their general health and their age.

Vaxcyte's new pneumococcal vaccine may only ... prevalent serotypes of S pneumoniae, which causes more than 150,000 cases of pneumonia requiring hospitalisation in the US every year and 300,000 ...

septicaemia and pneumonia since the start of 2023 - marking the highest annual rate since 2002. Pneumococcal meningitis is a life-threatening infectious disease that causes inflammation of the ...

Dear Savvy Senior, I’ve heard that people with heart problems need to be extra careful during the winter months because heart ...

A bacterium called Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes two types of respiratory tract infections ... Sabella recommends young children get the pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine, which protects against a ...