Tina Cheng

We'd had incredible success, a lot of residents-in-training have never seen tetanus, influenza or polio. But there are always new and emerging diseases, and even some of the vaccines we have need to be better.

As we see from history, there are regular pandemics in our world and we are due for one, many point to the flu as most likely culprit. It's especially hard on the young and elderly and those with chronic illness.

It's true we can't really predict what comes next, but we need to be thinking about it and where are we going, the take home message here is that pediatric research has led to improved life expectancy and there are emerging diseases and issues we need to combat. We just want to start the conversation.

The amount of research being done with children and infants has b... by Tina Cheng

The amount of research being done with children and infants has been declining.