Bradenton, Florida -- A child has tested positive for bacterial meningitis at Manatee Elementary School, according to the Manatee County Health Department. The child attends the Head Start program at ...
A popular and sporty teenager who made a "big impression" at her new university died within weeks of starting, after ...
Experts who spoke with MedPage Today also pointed to the impact of pneumococcal vaccines. Though a vaccine for adults was ...
Meningitis contributes to higher child mortality rates than estimated by the WHO, according to a new study by the CHAMPS network and led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The ...
(BPT) - GSK spokesperson Patsy Schanbaum’s daughter, Jamie, was a college freshman when she contracted meningococcal disease, also known as meningitis. "I got the call that every parent hopes they ...
A vaccine to prevent meningitis in children as young as 10 has been federally approved. But at a cost of about $150, doctors said parents need to weigh the cost and possible side effects against the ...
-- FOX23 News has confirmed that another student has died from meningitis. An 8-year-old girl is the second person from the Oologah-Public School system to die from meningitis. Early today a ...
NEWARK (WABC) -- Health officials in Newark met with parents Tuesday hoping to ease fears after a student died of a suspected case of bacterial meningitis, but a change in information may do more to ...
One in three children who suffer from bacterial meningitis live with permanent neurological disabilities due to the infection. One in three children who suffer from bacterial meningitis live with ...
Thirteen years ago, my husband, Bob, and I lost the love of our lives. Our only child Ryan was 18, working toward a professional golfing career and looking forward to starting his first year of ...
The UK comic shared that his earliest memory is getting treated for the disease Steve Eichner/Variety via Getty Comedian Jimmy Carr shared that he almost died as a child from meningitis — and that his ...
Meningitis contributes to higher child mortality rates than estimated by the WHO, according to a new study by the CHAMPS network and led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an ...