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

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polysaccharide-based jab Pneumovax 23. Sanofi's new challenger is billed as a "next-generation" pneumococcal conjugate vaccine that, according to the company, is the first candidate with more than ...

Merck already sells an older pneumococcal vaccine called Pneumovax 23, which protects against 23 strains but is a polysaccharide based shot, so doesn't stimulate as strong an immune response as ...

For prevention of IPD, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) has recommended the 23-valent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine, PNEU-P-23, for adults 65 years of age and older and ...

Split-virion inactivated vaccine containing 15 μg haemagglutinin/dose of ... Although the levels of pre-existing antibody levels against tetanus and pneumococcal polysaccharide were shown to be ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: 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 ...

Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of its 21-valent pneumococcal conjugate ...

Vaxcyte has advanced to the Phase II trial’s second and final stage (Stage 2) assessing its 31-valent pneumococcal conjugate ...

As we get older, there are bigger racial gaps in getting the pneumococcal (pneumonia) vaccine, flu vaccine, and hepatitis B (HepB) vaccine.