A new vaccine for Group B streptococcal bacteria in pregnant women is one step closer to arriving in doctors’ offices someday. Preliminary findings from a Phase 2 study found a vaccine covering three ...

Group B Strep causes life-threatening infections in newborn babies, causing sepsis, pneumonia and meningitis. Some of the women whose babies died or were left with lifelong disabilities had the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- There's a form of strep maybe not so well known that doesn't give someone a sore throat, but instead can be life-threatening for newborns. Group B strep (GBS) is bacteria called ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — As flu and RSV move across the U ...

A type of bacteria that can cause stillbirth and fatal illness in newborns attacks with an unlikely weapon: an orange pigment made of fat. “That’s shocking,” says study coauthor Kristina Adams Waldorf ...

(NEXSTAR) — As flu and RSV move across the U.S. and elsewhere – in addition to COVID-19 – there are increasing concerns about strep throat, and the bacteria that causes it, streptococcus. Like RSV, or ...