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

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

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

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 ...

At first, much the same. But inevitably, dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them.

Pfizer’s latest-generation pneumococcal conjugate ... Metrics and Evaluations, 155,000 children under the age of five died worldwide due to pneumonia and meningitis caused by pneumococcus ...

Kennedy is denying the facts – that vaccines are one of the most powerful interventions in history. That they have saved ...

A phase 2 study in children ... and meningitis," said Vaxcyte's chief operating officer, Jim Wassil. VAX-31 has the potential to be "a best-in-class pneumococcal vaccine capable of raising the ...

Marianna De León told Newsweek that she would not be able to live a full life had she not had them again after serious health battles.