H.L. Bock

TL;DR: In low-income countries, infectious diseases still account for a large proportion of deaths, highlighting health inequities largely caused by economic differences, and vaccination can cut health-care costs and reduce these inequities.

TL;DR: RIX4414 shows a good safety profile and offers high protection during the first 2 years of life with potentially significant public health impact in this population of Asian infants from high-income countries.

TL;DR: The live, attenuated rotavirus vaccine (RIX4414) was well tolerated and highly immunogenic in Singaporean infants and the immunogenicity of routinely administered infant vaccines was not impaired by concomitant administration of RIX4414.

TL;DR: The age and gender distribution of empyema and pleural effusion in children in these countries are similar to the US and Western Europe, which suggests that culture may not be a sufficiently sensitive diagnostic method to determine etiology in the majority of cases.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper surveyed medical records of four representative large pediatric hospitals in China, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam using ICD-10 diagnostic codes to identify children <16 years of age hospitalized with empyema or pleural effusion from 1995 to 2005.