Pneumococcal

Sixty-seven million at-risk Americans remain unvaccinated for pneumococcal disease

People with work-related asthma are particularly vulnerable to pneumococcal pneumonia.

This initiative emphasizes the importance of early recognition and timely treatment of sepsis, as well as the importance of preventing infections that could lead to sepsis.

Treatment with verapamil successfully improved symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.

Streptococcus pneumonia is an indiscriminate killer.

To completely understand pneumococcal vaccines and appreciate the progress in this area, pharmacists need to review some history.

Some treatment guidelines recommend watchful waiting in low-risk children who develop ear infections and generally ignore or exclude complementary and alternative medicine use, even in countries that embrace these methods.

Pharmacy-driven education can increase immunization acceptance among hospitalized patients refusing flu or pneumococcal vaccination upon admission.

Pneumococcal immunization recommendations have changed multiple times in previous years, but the rationale behind the new recommendations may not be clearly understood.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently updated the recommended interval between the 13-valeant pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and the 23-valeant pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in low-risk elderly patients.

Influenza boosts the ability of pneumococci to cause middle ear and throat infections.

A reduction in pediatric health care visits related to otitis media between 2001 and 2011 appears to be due to uptake of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, according to the results of a new study.