Many of them piled into the convention center for a spectacle that began from one radio station broadcasting live inside a ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or tuberculosis. Symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, ...

Merck (NYSE:MRK) has received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for ...

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

Antibiotics can be used to treat a litany of illnesses, but one thing they can’t combat is a viral infection.

You have a good eye. This past fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed the recommended age for getting the vaccine for pneumococcal pneumonia from those 65 and older to those 50 ...

Pneumonia: what are the different types of pneumonia? World Health Organization. Pneumonia in children. University of Texas Austin. Pneumococcal pneumonia. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Vaccination also reduces pneumonia-related hospital admissions and cardiovascular complications associated with pneumococcal infections ... Chou CY, Wang SM, Liang CC, Chang CT, Liu JH, Wang IK, Hsiao ...

Bacterial pneumonia is most commonly caused by a bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae which accounts for around 50% of cases. Other common causes include Haemophilus influenzae, Chlamydia ...

Pneumococcal lobar pneumonia was chosen for this study because of the relatively sharp clinical end-point obtainable. A consecutive series of patients was treated with aqueous penicillin G given ...