Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or tuberculosis. Symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, ...

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

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 ...

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

Pregnant patients in their third trimester and postpartum women showed higher risk for IPD compared with nonpregnant patients.

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 ...

While Pfizer’s earlier Prevnar 13 and Prevnar 10 have made a dent in the global burden of invasive pneumococcal disease, the bacterial infection remains a threat. According to 2021 estimates ...

A Sussex teenager who had a quadruple amputation after contracting sepsis is preparing to stand again as he tries on his first prosthetic limb. Hamish Wilson, 18, from Crowborough, had just begun ...

Participants 1106 adults aged 18-85 years with a diagnosis of sepsis according to sepsis-3 criteria and randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive thymosin α1 (n=552) or placebo (n=554). A stratified ...