SK Bioscience, Sanofi collaborate on next-gen pneumococcal vaccine development SK Bioscience and Sanofi join forces to ...

Letter writer explains why she believes U.S. lawmakers must continue to fund Vaccine Alliance worldwide immunization program.

Pneumonia can be caused by a virus, bacteria or fungus. Each of these can cause an immune reaction in the tissues of the ...

I just turned 57, and my doctor is now saying that I should get vaccinated for pneumonia. The only time I ever had pneumonia was one time when I had a bad case of the flu. Why isn’ t he talking about ...

Cases of pneumococcal diseases - a spectrum of bacterial infections young children are at risk of contracting - have surged ...

800,000 people in Austria are affected by COPD. The fact is that 40 to 50 percent of all lifelong smokers develop COPD, ...

Life-saving new-generation vaccines remain tied up in red tape as the country experiences the worst potentially deadly ...

Pneumococcal serotypes were identified using a serotype-specific 24-valent urinary-antigen assay. Trends in the proportion of CAP due to pneumococcus and causative serotypes were compared prepandemic ...

Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) remains the most common bacterial cause in children 5 years and older, with other important causes including mycoplasma and chlamydia. In some cases, fungi are ...

The viruses that scare me are the ones I don’t know about.” Anthony Fauci, long-time director of the National Institute ...

Serotype 3 pneumococcus (SPN3) presents a particular problem as there have been limited changes in incidence of this serotype despite a decade of immunisation programmes with PCV13 (1) and so SPN3 ...

Pneumonia can be caused by a wide variety of bacteria, viruses and fungi in the air we breathe. Identifying the cause of your pneumonia can be an important step in getting the proper treatment.