Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be ...

A recent retrospective study from researchers at Children’s Hospital Colorado to determine the hearing outcomes of pneumococcal meningitis found that non-PCV-13 serotypes seem to be driving the ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has assembled nearly 200 stories and dozens of testimonials on the horrors of vaccine-preventable deaths and illnesses that pediatricians have encountered over ...

The author says rollback of vaccines is troubling. Already Rhode Island reported its first case of measles in more than a ...

A retrospective study finds no effect of corticosteroids on overall mortality in children with bacterial meningitis — morbidity was not evaluated. Use of adjuvant corticosteroids for treatment ...

As parents, we try our best to keep our children protected from any kind of harm. And when it comes to the potentially fatal illness meningitis, prevention and knowledge are essential. Meningitis ...

The flames of vaccine hesitancy have been stoked to a bonfire by fictitious stories by self-serving people like the nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

Concern after the death of the 20-year-old student in Patras - The risk of contracting meningococcal disease is increased ...

Indeed, bacterial meningitis "has a fatality rate of about one in six and causes long-term complications in one in five survivors," says Dr. Jason Nagata, a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children ...