The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting marketing authorization for the pneumococcal vaccine Capvaxive (pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine [21-valent]) intended to ...

Widespread use of PCV13, which covers additional serotypes 3, 6A and 19A, may contribute to reduce the clonal spread of drug-resistant 19A pneumococci. The author has no relevant affiliations or ...

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 ...

At the moment, Pfizer's Prevnar franchise dominates the child and adult pneumococcal vaccine category, with sales of $4.85 billion in the first nine months of the year, slightly down on the same ...

Norovirus is surging across the U.S., with case numbers higher now than they've been at the same time in more than a decade, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

Jan 18 (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played an instrumental role in organizing mass litigation against drugmaker Merck over its Gardasil vaccine, a strategy that faces its first test in a Los ...

Covid vaccines saved lives. Lots of them. Research by the World Health Organization (WHO) now puts the number at 475,000 in the UK with many more kept out of hospital or off a ventilator.

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 ...

Vaccines are a clinical product that is composed of live or dead material from an infectious agent – bacterium, virus, fungus or parasite – that elicit protective immunity against the pathogen ...

For prevention of IPD, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) has recommended the 23-valent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine, PNEU-P-23, for adults 65 years of age and older and ...

RAHWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$MRK #MRK--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced today that the Committee for Medicinal ...