Since the plates on either side of a transform boundary are merely sliding past each other and not tearing or crunching each other, transform boundaries lack the spectacular features found at convergent and divergent boundaries.ince the plates on either side of a transform boundary are merely sliding past each other and not tearing or crunching each other, transform boundaries lack the spectacular features found at convergent and divergent boundaries.
Return to News Index. Pneumovax is the brand name for the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, which doctors recommend seniors and other at-risk adults get to protect themselves from the pneumococcal disease, a serious health threat that can lead to death.any strains of Streptococcus pneumonia are resistant to currently used antibiotics. Infection with the bacteria is a leading cause of serious illness in adults and children worldwide. In the U.S. alone, more people die from pneumococcal disease each year than all other vaccine-preventable diseases combined.
A pneumothorax is an unwanted collection of air in your chest cavity (pleural cavity) between the lung and the chest wall. This can occur spontaneously in young adults and is called Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax (PSP). PSP is common in young males rather than in females. Its incidence in the general population is 18/100,000 in males and 6/100,000 in females per year.