When Paul Offit, MD, was a pediatric resident at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in the late 1970s, some 400 children were admitted each winter with severe dehydration from rotavirus infection.

In Denmark, pediatrician Michael Thwing once saw nearly 20 infants admitted simultaneously with rotavirus. His experience in ...

At this late date, one hardly needs to remind pediatricians or other pediatric healthcare providers that rotavirus is, perhaps, the most common cause of diarrhea in the world. No minor footnote to a ...

St. Louis health officials have noticed an interesting trend in the city; rotavirus infections have spiked every other year, including last year when 65 children fell ill, according to a St. Louis ...

One of the changes that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently made to the childhood immunization schedule ...

Oral vaccines promise painless, needle-free protection—but the human gut evolved to destroy exactly what vaccines are made of ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. A woman gets vaccinated during the flu vaccination campaign at a health center in Madrid on Oct. 14, 2024. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Vaccine side effects ...

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 ...