Two Upstate students have died following complications with bacterial meningitis and meningococcemia. One of the students was ...

Paramedics arrived at the home and Lila was pronounced dead at 9.19am. Pathologist Dr Gemma Petts told the jury she proposed a cause of a death as pneumococcal meningitis.

Two of our 16 patients had pneumococcal meningitis twice (Cases 1 and 6, Table 1). Of the 18 episodes of meningitis 15 were proved to be bacterial, 2 were viral, and 1 was of unknown etiology.

Compared with no dexamethasone treatment, early administration of dexamethasone in children with pneumococcal meningitis lowered 30-day all-cause mortality by 50%, a new study showed. Overall ...

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Outbreaks of meningitis, whooping cough and varicella could be right around the corner. So what can we do to decrease the risk of a catastrophic explosion of vaccine-preventable illnesses?

Meningitis is an infection that causes the thin layers of the meninges that surround the brain and spinal cord to become inflamed, explains Dr. Rodrigo Hasbun, an infectious diseases professor at ...

Pneumococcal pneumonia affects about 12% to 13% of all people who are hospitalized for pneumonia. The infection leads to about 225,000 adult hospitalizations in the United States each year, the ...

Sanofi is handing SK bioscience 50 million euros ($52 million) as the longtime partners take their next-gen pneumococcal conjugate vaccine program into phase 3. The move follows a phase 2 win last ...

Pneumococcal infections range from mild, like an ear or sinus infection, to severe, like pneumonia, meningitis or a bloodstream infection. More on vaccines: Moderna, Pfizer or Novavax?

For the first time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lowered the recommended age for those who should get a pneumococcal vaccine — down to 50, from 65.

The CDC now says everyone 50 to 64 years old should get a pneumococcal vaccine to help protect against serious illnesses like pneumonia, meningitis, and bloodstream infections.