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Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, coverage for selected routine childhood vaccines remained below prepandemic levels.

With respect to this article, I noted the company's enormous potential to advance its Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine [PCV] candidate VAX-24 to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease [IPD] in ...

meningitidis military personnel who are at increased risk of meningococcal disease close contacts of a case of IMD and for individuals at risk in an outbreak setting if the disease is caused by a ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top vaccine official, who was part of the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, has reportedly been forced out of his position ...

WASHINGTON - Dr. Peter Marks, the top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration, wrote in a letter on Friday that he was resigning from his position and criticized Health and Human ...

Merck MRK announced that the European Commission (“EC”) has approved its 21-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (“PCV”), Capvaxive, for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease ...

David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago. By Christina ...

The availability of MSD’s vaccine in individual nations will be subject to various factors. Credit: Copyright © 2025 Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA and its ...

acellular pertussis (DTaP); poliovirus; and varicella—diseases that can cause severe, potentially life-threatening, illness. Some of these vaccines are given just months after birth, while others are ...

This is an important study that examines the impact of Streptococcus pneumoniae genetics on its in vitro growth kinetics, aiming to identify potential targets for vaccines and therapeutics ...