Sunday, 26 May 2013

New Pneumococcal Vaccine as Safe as Previous Version of the Vaccine

A new report published in the journal Vaccine reveals that the Kaiser Permanente study looking into the new 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) has found it to be as safe as the previous version, 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), used prior to 2010. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved PCV13 for use beginning in 2010 after a series of trials. These trials found that PCV13, which protects against a broader range of pneumococcal ...

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