April 30, 2009 — The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued updated guidelines for the use of rotavirus vaccine. The new policy statement, which is published in the May issue of Pediatrics, ...
The rotavirus vaccine is the only live oral vaccine on the CDC's recommended schedule of childhood immunizations. This fact, along with differing dose schedules for the two available vaccines and the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A second oral vaccine to prevent a leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants won approval from U.S. health officials on Thursday. The GlaxoSmithKline Plc vaccine Rotarix ...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Benefits from rotavirus vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Merck & Co Inc outweigh any risk from recently discovered contamination with a pig virus, members of ...
The introduction of the rotavirus vaccine has had a profound impact on global pediatric deaths from acute gastroenteritis and diarrhea, but its footprint has been uneven and challenging to track ...