Science news articles about 'pneumonia vaccine'

... Standards and Technology (NIST), where a team of scientists has found a way to improve the efficiency of a pneumonia vaccine testing method developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). ...

... risk of heart attacks 2 years after vaccination, suggests a large hospital-based case- ... Madjid from the Texas Heart Institute hypothesizes that the pneumonia vaccine protects against heart attacks ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel says smokers should be vaccinated against pneumococcal pneumonia.

... also advises COPD sufferers, in addition to weighing the benefits and harms of steroids, to get the pneumonia vaccination every five years and an annual flu vaccination because these shots reduce the ...

Commonly used pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines do not appear to be effective for preventing pneumonia, found a study by a team of researchers from Switzerland and the United Kingdom writing in the ...

Most of the serious consequences linked to the H1N1 virus are the result of pneumonia, but the Pneumovax vaccine is underused. In years past, the nation's attempts to prevent flu-related deaths have ...