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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) is encouraging those aged 65 and over to get their shingles and ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic blood disorder that affects hemoglobin, causing red blood cells to become rigid and ...

Actor Val Kilmer, 65, died of pneumonia this week, his daughter confirmed. Dr. Marc Siegel discusses common causes and risks ...

Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) disease is caused by a bacterial infection. The illness can range from mild to severe. Despite its name, Haemophilus influenzae has nothing to do with the influenza virus ...

Today’s results reinforce our commitment to advancing the broadest-spectrum PCVs to address the substantial invasive pneumococcal disease burden in the infant population, helping to reduce ...

He covers federal public health agencies. The entire staff of the federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off, multiple federal health ...

for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease (“IPD”) and pneumococcal pneumonia in individuals aged 18 years and above. The FDA had approved Capvaxive for 21 serotypes, which account ...

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 ...

Instead, the woman was injected with a vaccine for tuberculosis, the deadliest infection in the world, with an estimated 1.2 million deaths each year, resulting in a severe tuberculosis (TB ...

which may have implications on pneumococcal disease pathogenesis. Here, we studied the impact of pneumococcal genetics on in vitro growth kinetics to understand the influence of bacterial genetic ...

EC decision marks the fourth approval for CAPVAXIVE for pneumococcal vaccination in adults “Pneumococcal disease continues to pose a significant risk for adults in Europe, among adults who are ...