Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or tuberculosis. Symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting marketing authorization for the pneumococcal vaccine Capvaxive (pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine [21-valent]) intended to ...

Drug major Merck & Co. (MRK) announced Friday that the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use or ...

Merck (MRK) announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, or CHMP, of the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, recommended ...

Antibiotics can be used to treat a litany of illnesses, but one thing they can’t combat is a viral infection.

The CDC revised its pneumococcal pneumonia shot recommendation, saying there is a substantial increase in the risk for ...

In India, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has reached epidemic proportions, with population-based studies ...

The macaques exposed via the mouth or stomach, however, had limited infection but showed no signs of illness. All the monkeys ...

“Hospital confirmed I had flu and pneumonia. “I was there nearly a week and I’m still not recovered. It could take another few weeks until I feel like myself again.” The caption was ...

Pneumococcal lobar pneumonia was chosen for this study because of the relatively sharp clinical end-point obtainable. A consecutive series of patients was treated with aqueous penicillin G given ...

In the late fall, children’s hospitals in Philadelphia dealt with rising cases of another respiratory illness: walking pneumonia, or mycoplasma pneumonia. Now cases of walking pneumonia are waning, ...

BRUSSELS ― European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was confined to hospital suffering from pneumonia, her spokesperson said Friday, shedding light on the seriousness of her illness for the ...