Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 9—(StatePoint) Pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung disease that can disrupt your life for weeks ...

Are you at least 50 years old? The Center for Disease Control (CDC) now recommends you get vaccinated against pneumococcal diseases, a type of bacterial disease that can cause multiple illnesses. The ...

"We [in medicine] tend to want to deliver a lot of data," says William Schaffner, MD, Professor of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Center. "Information is critical," he says, "but what's ...

The shots on your child's vaccine schedule all play an important role in protecting your little one from preventable illnesses. One of them — pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) — targets a common ...

—Among adults, coverage and preventable burdens were lowest for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) 15 and highest for PCV31, with PCV21 preventing notable burdens of both acute respiratory ...

The ACIP recommends vaccination for all adults aged 50 years and older who have not previously received a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine or whose previous vaccination history is unknown. The Centers ...

The increase in invasive pneumococcal disease across Europe is driven by Streptococcus pneumoniae, which also causes pneumonia and acute otitis media that can progress to invasive infections. Nearly ...

While incidence of pneumococcal disease decreased or increased slightly between 2002 and 2011, the baseline health status of those with serious pneumococcal infections worsened over the study period, ...

U.S. health officials on Wednesday recommended that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses. The recommendation was made by a scientific ...

944 cases represented a new high in invasive pneumococcal cases last year.

WASHINGTON — Invasive pneumococcal disease in patients with no known risk factors may be linked to genetic susceptibility, according to a new study. "These findings may — in the future — help us ...