Young children who receive flu and pneumococcal vaccines at the same time are at increased risk for temporary fever, a new study reports. While parents should be told about this risk, the benefits of the vaccines outweigh the risks of ...
Tags: children health, pneumococcal vaccines, flu vaccines, temporary fever
Giving young children the influenza and pneumococcal vaccines together appears to increase their risk of fever, according to a study led by researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Tags: Influenza, Pneumococcal Vaccines, Fever, Fever in Children
British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA's) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for additional indication for Synflorix, a pediatric pneumococcal ...
Tags: drug, Pneumonia Indication
Pfizer has obtained European approval for the expanded use of Prevenar 13 (pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine [13-valent, adsorbed]), in adults between 18 to 49 years of age for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease. ...
Tags: Pneumococcal Vaccine, Medicine
Liquidia, the designer and manufacturer of engineered particles, has announced that its collaboration with PATH has been extended to develop next generation Pneumococcal vaccine. The vaccine, if successful, could potentially allow for ...
Tags: Liquidia, Pneumococcal Vaccine
Immunobiology (ImmBio), a UK-based biopharmaceutical company, has bagged £0.2m in funding from the UK government-backed Biomedical Catalyst (BBC) for the pre-clinical development of pneumococcal vaccine PnuBioVax. The pharma company ...