HealthDay News — Vaccination with the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RV5, Rotateq, Merck) did not increase intussusception risk among infants aged 4 to 34 weeks compared with infants who did not ...

Intussusception remains one of the most common causes of acute abdominal emergencies in children, necessitating prompt and accurate diagnosis as well as effective treatment strategies. Recent advances ...

With vaccination, rotavirus hospitalizations have dropped from 70,000 each year to near ze ...

Jan. 27, 2003 — A case-control study reported in the January issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine found an association between antibiotic use and intussusception. However, the ...

The development of a safe, effective rotavirus vaccine was a major milestone in reducing hospitalizations and deaths from the virus in children around the globe, but the rollout of the first rotavirus ...

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