The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting marketing authorization for the pneumococcal vaccine Capvaxive ...

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

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

Merck (NYSE: MRK), 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 ...

Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of its 21-valent pneumococcal conjugate ...

Vaxcyte's new pneumococcal vaccine may only have phase 1/2 results behind it, but analysts are already predicting it could be a major competitor to rival shots from Pfizer and MSD. Just-reported ...

Sanofi has moved ahead with plans to challenge Pfizer and MSD for a piece of the market for pneumococcal vaccines, taking a 21-valent shot licensed from SK Biosciences into phase 3 testing.

There is no antiviral treatment for the miserable but thankfully short-lived illness, and no vaccine—yet. But scientists at Moderna are in the late stages of testing what could be the first such ...

While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has backpedaled on his anti-vaccine rhetoric during his Senate confirmation ...

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West. By Apoorva Mandavilli Most American ...

Babies are supposed to receive vaccines that protect against about 15 different infectious diseases. Most require more than one dose, which amounts to nearly 30 jabs by age two. Parents may be ...