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Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Caused by Pneumococcal Infection Leads to Severe Illness in Young Children

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) caused by infection with pneumococcal bacteria leads to severe illness—with a high rate of irreversible kidney damage—in infants and young children, reports a study in the September issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. The new ...More

August 29, 2011

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Study Challenges Concerns About Administering Pneumococcal and Shingles Vaccines Together

Administering both the pneumococcal and the herpes zoster vaccines to patients during the same visit is beneficial and does not appear to compromise the protective effect of the zoster vaccine, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the journal Vaccine. The ...More

May 16, 2011

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Vaccine Made With Synthetic Gene Protects Against Pneumonia

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococcal pneumonia. Details of the new vaccine, which was tested in an ...More

February 22, 2011

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New Pneumococcal Vaccine Approach is Successful in Early Tests

Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) accounts for as much as 11 percent of mortality in young children worldwide. While successful vaccines like Prevnar exist, they are expensive and only work against specific pneumococcal strains, with the risk of becoming less ...More

February 17, 2011

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Dosing Schedule of Pneumococcal Vaccine Poses Increased Risk of Acquiring Multiresistant Strain

Infants who received heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV-7) at 2, 4, and 11 months were more likely than unvaccinated controls to have nasopharyngeal acquisition of pneumococcal serotype 19A, a leading cause of respiratory pneumococcal disease, according to ...More

September 7, 2010

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Vaccine Reduces Pneumonia and Complications in Infants

A pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduced in the U.S. 10 years ago appears to reduce pneumonia and serious associated complications, such as blood infections, in the vaccine's target range, children less than a year old, according to new research. ...More

July 19, 2010

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Vaccine Has Led to Changes in Pneumococcal Infections

In the decade since the introduction of pneumococcal vaccination, significant shifts have occurred in the bacterial strains causing serious pneumococcal infections in children, according to a pair of studies in the April issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. ...More

April 12, 2010

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Components of Extraneous Virus Detected in Rotarix Vaccine; No Known Safety Risk

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending that healthcare practitioners temporarily suspend use of the Rotarix vaccine for rotavirus immunization in the United States while the agency learns more about components of an extraneous virus detected in the vaccine. ...More

March 23, 2010

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FDA Approves Pneumococcal Disease Vaccine with Broader Protection

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine for infants and young children ages 6 weeks through 5 years. Prevnar 13 will be the successor to Prevnar, the pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine licensed ...More

February 24, 2010

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Joint Commission Annual Report Shows Gains in Patient-Care Quality

Accredited hospitals in America have steadily improved the quality of patient care over a seven-year period, saving lives and improving the health of thousands of patients, according to the Joint Commission’s latest annual report. The report, “Improving ...More

January 14, 2010

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