The vaccine helps to prevent bacterial infections that can cause serious illness in older adults, such as pneumonia.

Researchers at the University of Alberta looked at conversations between pharmacists and patients before and after an ...

The agency recommends giving one of three available vaccines — PCV15, PCV20 or PCV21 — to all adults 50 years or older who ...

Officials say every year, pneumonia causes 1.5 million people to visit medical emergency departments and is responsible for ...

Those as young as age 50 should get vaccinated against pneumococcal pneumonia, the CDC said in a recent announcement. The change is a significant reduction in age requirements, as the agency ...

VAX-31, the broadest-spectrum PCV candidate in the clinic, is a potentially best-in-class investigational 31-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) candidate being studied for the prevention of ...

But older adults are more at risk of having ... so it’s also important to start getting vaccinated around age 65. Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (PPSV). PPSVs contain purified sugars ...

Disparities in both disease burden and vaccination exist as well. 4 In 2022, only 23% of eligible adults 19-64 years received a pneumococcal vaccination 5 In 2022, according to National Health ...

which can cause serious complications in older adults. An annual flu shot is particularly important for people over 50, ...

With that in mind, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced recommendations for a pair of ...