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

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 ...

France’ s health ministry today reported the country ’ s first clade 1b mpox case, which involves a person from Brittany who ...

Seasonal flu is currently the most common virus detected in China's illness surge, which is at expected levels for this time ...

The flu vaccine is a must for anyone over 60. Influenza can be more severe in older adults, often leading to complications like pneumonia. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

V116 (PCV21) was more cost-effective than PCV20 alone and PCV15 plus PPSV23 for the prevention of adult pneumococcal disease.

Pneumonia is usually the result of a bacterial or viral infection and you can catch pneumonia from someone who already has it, as you can with the common cold.

The pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV ... Among COPD patients, the effectiveness of PPV in preventing pneumonia and/or acute infective exacerbations is unclear. A controlled trial reported ...

Aug. 6, 2024 — An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a patient's entrance to their ...

Antimicrobial resistance and serotypes in Streptococcus pneumoniae have been evolving with the widespread use of antibiotics and the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV).

The Indianapolis American Heart Association is sharing how to know when it’s time to take a break from shoveling snow. Its ...