While children under five, particularly those under two, are the most vulnerable, pneumococcal diseases also affect adults. The most common symptoms include cough, chills and fever.

Issa, M.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues issued the ACIP-approved "Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children and ... serogroup B vaccines, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, and ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics says doctors’ offices can dismiss families from their practice over the question of ...

Dr. Matthew Simmons, UPMC Western Maryland vice president of medical staff affairs, said vaccines provide the "single most powerful intervention" that have saved lives. He recently discussed the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is scheduled to review both the two new vaccines ... 20 in children. Children under the age of two are particularly vulnerable to pneumococcal ...

Pfizer’s latest-generation pneumococcal ... effective vaccines that prevent severe diseases and save lives.” The vaccine is recommended for use in children under the age of two and in adults ...

Kennedy is denying the facts – that vaccines are one of the most powerful interventions in history. That they have saved millions of lives, and prevented even more life- altering disabilities in the ...

Should vaccination rates drop across the board, one of the first diseases to be resurrected would almost certainly be measles ...