The shots on your child's vaccine schedule all play an important role in protecting your little one from preventable illnesses. One of them — pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) — targets a common ...

"We observed wide variation across pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) products in serotype coverage and potentially preventable burdens. Variation in both invasive and mucosal disease coverage and ...

The increase in invasive pneumococcal disease across Europe is driven by Streptococcus pneumoniae, which also causes pneumonia and acute otitis media that can progress to invasive infections. Nearly ...

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 are steps you ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that American adults over the age of 50 receive the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, or PCV. The report with the updated ...

Respiratory diseases like COVID-19, flu, pneumococcal disease, and RSV don’t affect everyone equally. For adults and children ...

Using national data, researchers in England calculated the risk of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) among women ages 15 to 44 years old. With a few exceptions, there were no statistically ...

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This guest essay reflects the views of Karyne Jones, president and chief executive of the National Caucus and Center on Black Aging, Inc. If you or a loved one has ever had pneumonia, you understand ...

‡ All children up to 23 months of age and up to 59 months of age for high-risk children. § Healthy children get a 3 + 0 dose schedule, children at risk do get fourth dose of pneumococcal conjugate ...