AVANT Immunotherapeutics today announced that GlaxoSmithKline's Biologics License Application (BLA) for Rotarix(R), an oral candidate vaccine for infants to prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis, has been ...

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 vaccine Rotarix fights infection with the ...

More than 69 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed globally, with 2.5 million in the United States. In the U.S., Rotarix is indicated for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis ...

September 23, 2010 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revised the label of the rotavirus vaccine Rotarix (GlaxoSmithKline) to warn of a small increased risk for intussusception that was ...

The US FDA after deliberation has come up with a warning to the nation’s pediatricians to stop giving children a vaccine that prevents diarrhea causing Rotavirus vaccine. There is reportedly a ...

May 14, 2010 (UPDATED May 18, 2010) — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it is revising its recommendations for rotavirus vaccines. The agency says that based on a careful ...

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 ...

GlaxoSmithKline’s bid to get the green light for its rotavirus vaccine has been boosted by a favourable recommendation from a US Food and Drug Administration panel. GlaxoSmithKline’s bid to get the ...

The European Medicines Agency said the unexpected presence of a pig virus in GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine poses no threat and should continue to be used, the drugmaker said Friday. The agency was ...

As expected, US regulators have given the green light to GlaxoSmithKline’s rotavirus vaccine Rotarix, a move which will see the jab go up against Merck & Co’s rival product Rotateq. As expected, US ...

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 ...