The FDA has approved a new pneumococcal vaccine from Merck & Co, just over a month after Pfizer got a green light for a new version of its market leading Prevnar shot. Merck's Vaxneuvance ...

Within the past year, DSF has lectured on pneumococcal vaccination at two scientific meetings and received travel compensation and modest honoraria. DSF has no other competing interests ...

The pneumococcal vaccine can protect you from an infection caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae or pneumococcus. (Photo Credit: Bernard Chantal/Dreamstime) Pneumococcal disease can ...

Questions and answers are republished by permission. Q: I am in my 70s and have previously had the pneumonia vaccination and then the Prevnar 13 vaccination. Now they have Prevnar 20, and the ...

tolerability and immunogenicity of VAX-31 compared to Prevnar 20 (PCV20) in healthy infants. VAX-31, a 31-valent PCV candidate advancing to a Phase 3 adult clinical program and currently being ...

tolerability and immunogenicity of VAX-31 compared to Prevnar 20 (PCV20) in healthy infants. Stage 1 of the study evaluated the safety and tolerability of VAX-31 after the first vaccination at ...

Children can get free pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccinations in all medical centers across the country, the deputy health ...

So of course, what we found was with that incremental protein carrier, we really didn't see a fall off in the magnitude of immune responses when compared to Prevnar 20. So if the VAX-24 data is ...

“It has been clearly signaled by the public health community that a pneumococcal vaccine with a broader spectrum of coverage is needed to provide greater protection against this diseas ...