Pneumonia vaccine does not protect against heart attacks or strokes

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 16:10 in Health & Medicine

The pneumococcal pneumonia vaccination is not associated with a reduced risk of heart attacks or strokes, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that followed 84,170 men aged 45 to 69.

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