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NEW YORK (AP) — A scientific panel on Wednesday recommended that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can ...

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has lowered the recommended age for pneumococcal vaccination from 65 to ...

as the wording of the ACIP’s recommendations will give the clearest view of how competitive the new shot will be in the US market. The CDC currently recommends pneumococcal vaccination for all ...

VAX-31’s safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity are being assessed in this trial on healthy infants. Vaxcyte anticipat ...

Rahway: Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, has announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products ...

Travelers heading to Saudi Arabia for Umrah no longer need to be vaccinated against Neisseria meningitis. The General ...

Under the previous mandate, all Umrah travellers were required to be vaccinated against Neisseria meningitidis, with the vaccine administered no more than three years and no less than ten days before ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has introduced the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into Brunei Darussalam’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation, effective FeB 1 as part of efforts to protect infants ...

Pneumococcal vaccines can prevent common bacterial infections ... Healthline has strict sourcing guidelines and relies on peer-reviewed studies, academic research institutions, and medical ...

Vaxcyte (PCVX) announced that the first study participants have been dosed in the second and final stage of the ongoing Phase 2 study of VAX-31 ...