Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be expected.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Just-reported data from that study has shown that Vaxcyte's VAX-31 shot was able to stimulate a strong immune response against all 31 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae included in the ...

I have worked in pediatric emergency departments for the past 35 years—since before the innovative conjugate vaccines against ...