June 18 (Reuters) - Drugmaker Merck said on Thursday the U.S. health regulator has approved an expanded use of its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It started with a cough that wouldn’t go away. Before she knew it, Karyne Jones was hospitalized with pneumonia in January 2018.

Children in Guatemala who received a common vaccine that helps prevent pneumonia were less likely to carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a new study led by Washington State University ...

Bacteremia, or blood poisoning, occurs when bacteria overcome the body's immune defenses. Bacteremia can worsen into sepsis, a condition that accounts for more than 1 in 3 hospital deaths per year.

The shots on your child's vaccine schedule all play an important role in protecting your little one from preventable illness. One of them — pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) — targets a common and ...

Now, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a bacterial enzyme that may be ...

Pneumonia infects millions of people every year. Cases of this highly contagious lung infection surged across all age groups in 2024, but young children were hit particularly hard. Infection rates in ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria—such as how they synthesize their protective capsules—is essential for developing new ...