Reuters - A short course of a drug relieves severe diarrhea in children infected with rotavirus, which kills half a million youngsters in mainly poor countries each year, researchers said on Tuesday.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 9 (HealthDay News) -- Your young child has been struggling with diarrhea, as well as fever, upset stomach and vomiting. Chances are good that a nasty, unpredictable bug called rotavirus is to blame.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 9 (HealthDay News) -- Your young child has been struggling with diarrhea, as well as fever, upset stomach and vomiting. Chances are good that a nasty, unpredictable bug called rotavirus is to blame.

Reuters - Fewer children in sub-Saharan Africa are dying from measles, diarrhea and respiratory infections but improvements have been offset by HIV/AIDS and malaria, researchers said on Friday.

AP - In its quest to genetically engineer rice with human genes to produce a treatment for childhood diarrhea, tiny Ventria Bioscience has made an astonishing number of powerful enemies spanning the political spectrum.

Denise Royal - All Headline News Staff Writer Atlanta, GA (AHN) - An influential federal advisory panel recommended Tuesday that every U.S. infant be vaccinated against rotavirus, a common and potentially fatal cause of childhood diarrhea and vomiting. Children should receive a three-dose...

AP - An influential federal advisory panel recommended Tuesday that every U.S. infant be vaccinated against rotavirus, a common and potentially fatal cause of childhood diarrhea and vomiting.

Reuters - A new oral rotavirus vaccine that protects 98 percent of infants against the worst cases of diarrhea should be added to the schedule of immunizations for babies and young children, U.S. advisers said on Tuesday.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a live, oral vaccine -- called RotaTeq -- to prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants. It's the only vaccine approved in the United States that can help protect against rotavirus, a viral infection that may cause diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and dehydration.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a live, oral vaccine -- called RotaTeq -- to prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants. It's the only vaccine approved in the United States that can help protect against rotavirus, a viral infection that may cause diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and dehydration.

AP - A vaccine that protects against a virus that is the leading cause of early childhood diarrhea — one that kills hundreds of thousands of infants in developing countries — received U.S. approval Friday.

Reuters - A new Merck & Co. Inc. vaccine won Food and Drug Administration approval on Friday for preventing an infection that puts 55,000 young U.S. children in the hospital annually with severe diarrhea.

AP - A new vaccine that protects infants from rotavirus, which causes diarrhea and dehydration and leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths a year in developing countries, received federal approval Friday.

Reuters - Experimental vaccines by drug-makers Merck and GlaxoSmithKline can prevent severe childhood diarrhea caused by rotaviruses that kill thousands of children a year worldwide, two studies showed on Wednesday.