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• Pneumovax 23 is only partly protective.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that anyone over 65 receive Merck's Pneumovax 23.
• Lastly, Scientific American Medicine is just one place I have found that now recommends a booster pneumovax after seven years.
• Merck & Co . is the only company in the United States that makes the vaccine, called Pneumovax 23.
• Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine ( Pneumovax is one brand ) gives at least 85 % protection in those under 55 years of age for five years or longer.
• Those patients whom we have " boosted " with pneumovax have tolerated it fine . _ Roger R . Tobias, M . D ., Lyons, KS
• The medical director of adult vaccines for Merck & Co ., which makes the Pneumovax 23 vaccine, said it targets the most common but not all the strains that cause pneumonia.
• Considering that the newer versions have more vaccine against a larger number of pneumococci than did the older shots, that alone would make a subsequent pneumovax shot logical, not to mention dissipation of the original immunity, which is inferred by the resource.
• The FDA first issued regulations in the late 1960s governing consumer advertising of prescription drugs, but it wasn't until 1981 that the first ad appeared in the mass media _ for Merck's Pneumovax, a pneumonia vaccine, in Reader's Digest.