Pneumococcal vaccination reduces the risk of bacterial meningitis following cochlear implantation, as reported by a recent ...

A Northland teenager who suffered from meningitis has defied the odds by recovering to the point where he can walk and ...

While children under five, particularly those under two, are the most vulnerable, pneumococcal diseases also affect adults.

Merck , known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended the ...

Polk County’s level of immunization for kindergartners dropped from 96.3% in 2021 to 93.2% in 2023, still above the statewide ...

Within a day, the child was dead, felled by pneumococcus meningitis, often called strep pneumo. That is one of the potentially fatal illnesses for which babies are normally vaccinated, receiving a ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has assembled nearly 200 stories and dozens of testimonials on the horrors of ...

Conclusions Our findings reveal the economic burden associated with pneumococcal disease in the Unified Health System in Brazil. Hospitalization costs were higher for cases of meningitis and among ...