Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed another unorthodox view on vaccines, declaring that single antigen ...

Rotavirus is a leading cause of severe gastroenteritis and diarrhea globally, and nearly all children have been infected with rotavirus by age 5 years. Until a safe, effective vaccine for rotavirus ...

Medical certainty can be elusive, writes Jason Kolb, a former ER doctor. Here's how to make educated decisions about your ...

Researchers have shown that differences in the entire rotavirus genome -- not just its two surface proteins -- affect how well vaccines work, helping to explain why some strains are more likely to ...

We decided to select studies between 2000 and August 2010 because rotavirus vaccines are very new vaccines, which have only been available in the market since 2006. Studies were strictly conducted ...

Childhood vaccinations have not recovered from the slump that happened after the pandemic, according to new research.

So, humanitarian hopes were similarly high when a rotavirus vaccine was developed in the 1990s with comparable potential to save young children from severe gastroenteritis. 1-5 But that vaccine's ...

Angela Howard was concerned when her infant daughter stopped crying, despite repeated jabs with an IV needle. The child was dehydrated after three days of severe diarrhea and vomiting. A surgeon at ...

Two main vaccines, Rotarix (RV1) and RotaTeq (RV5), have significantly reduced cases of severe illness from rotavirus in the US, but they do not provide perfect protection.

Diarrhoeal disease in India: causes, prevention, and treatment, including the impact of rotavirus vaccination on public health.