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View Post: Biggest rotavirus vaccine trials in South Africa enroles 3167 ...
27 Nov 2009 by pillscribe  
Rotavirus vaccine trial in South Africa aims to evaluate the efficacy of the vaccine in the developing world and to assist with WHO pre-qualification of the rotavirus vaccine for use in Africa. UK-based Synexus recruited the highest ...
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View Post: Superstar CBS Reporter Blows the Lid Off the Swine Flu Media Hype ...
21 hours ago by katytx  
•3 out of the 5 FDA advisory committee members who voted to approve the rotavirus vaccine in December 1997 had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were developing different versions of the vaccine. ...
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View Post: Compelling Rotavirus Burden Data And Critical Need For Access To ...
21 Nov 2009 by Alfie  
Informed by the WHO decision, the GAVI Alliance has committed to providing eligible countries with financial support for rotavirus vaccine introduction and is currently accepting applications. Please send any medical news or health news ...
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View Post: Rotavirus Vaccine Cutting Infection Rates Among Kids
22 Oct 2009
While cases of rotavirus disease have decreased since the introduction of rotavirus vaccination, continued surveillance is needed to better understand the impact of the rotavirus vaccine, the researchers said. ...
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View Post: Adoption of Rotavirus Vaccination by Pediatricians and Family ...
26 Oct 2009 by Kempe, A., Patel, MM, Daley, MF, Crane,...  
CONCLUSIONS: Rates of offering the new rotavirus vaccine are high among pediatricians but <50% among family medicine physicians. Both specialties identified financial barriers to use of the vaccine, but family medicine physicians had ...
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View Post: Rotavirus—the most common and lethal form of diarrhea—deadly for ...
19 Nov 2009 by Eckhard  
Regional surveillance networks have generated rotavirus disease and strain burden data in nearly 60 countries since 2001, demonstrating tremendous burden and supporting the need for widespread rotavirus vaccine use. ...
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View Post: Regulatory Update: GSK files Rotarix for prevention of rotavirus ...
7 hours ago
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced today that it has filed its vaccine for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis (approved as Rotarix® in a number of countries outside of Japan). 11 reads; Feed: GSK news · Original article ...
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View Post: Genocea Biosciences Expands Scientific Advisory Board with ...
23 Nov 2009 by Business Wire  
Dr. Bernstein has expertise in vaccines and antivirals against herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus, and was instrumental in the development of the precursor to the rotavirus vaccine, Rotarix®. Robert Coffman, Ph.D. ...
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