The rotavirus vaccine does not provide sterilizing immunity or lifetime immunity, unlike the measles vaccine and several other childhood immunizations. However, by preventing primary infections in ...

From Missouri to Mexico, Virginia to Venezuela, doctors are giving thousands of babies two experimental vaccines hoping to stop a type of diarrhea that kills more than 600,000 children worldwide each ...

A study in this week's issue of The Lancet concludes that the risk of intussusception, a bowel obstruction, in infants vaccinated against severe rotavirus diarrhea was substantially lower than ...

In the fall of 1998, rotavirus, a leading cause of severe childhood diarrhea, seemed ready to go the way of measles and rubella, viral diseases largely defeated by the administration of childhood ...

Rotavirus is one of the world’s biggest killers of children, yet most parents have never heard of it. Now, more than 30 years after the intestinal bug was identified, pharmaceutical companies are ...

A vaccine to protect infants from rotavirus, a common but dangerous virus that causes severe and sometimes fatal diarrhoea, may have been prematurely withdrawn from the market. Wyeth Laboratories ...

N.B. Please note that if you are outside North America the embargo for Lancet press material is 0001 hours UK time friday 12th October 2001. Worldwide, some 600 000 to 800 000 infants die yearly from ...

A study in The Lancet concludes that the risk of intussusception, a bowel obstruction, in infants vaccinated against severe rotavirus diarrhea was substantially lower than previous reports estimated.

Before RotaShield, vaccine development did not routinely look for such rare side effects. Still, GSK had already invested millions in the rotavirus vaccine, and its managers did not want to give up so ...