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Hypersensitivity to Excipients in Drugs: An EAACI Position Paper

open access: yesAllergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drugs contain active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients, compounds which enhance the pharmacokinetics, stability and palatability of the pharmaceutical formulation. While most drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHR) are caused by active ingredients, excipients may also be involved.
Lene H. Garvey   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Going Viral: Vaccines, Free Speech, and the Harm Principle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper analyzes the case of public anti-vaccine campaigns and examines whether there may be a normative case for placing limitations on public speech of this type on harm principle grounds.
Unterreiner, Miles
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Measles Vaccination Before the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2013
At the beginning of the 1960s, it was clear that a vaccine against measles would soon be available. Although measles was (and remains) a killer disease in the developing world, in the United States and Western Europe this was no longer so. Many parents and many medical practitioners considered measles an inevitable stage of a child’s development ...
Jan, Hendriks, Stuart, Blume
openaire   +3 more sources

Inflammation Unchecked: Concurrent Kawasaki Disease and Stevens‐Johnson Syndrome in an 18‐Month‐Old Child

open access: yes
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Catherine Deffendall   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Considerations Regarding the Vaccination of Children—The Power Dynamics Between Doctors and Parents

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a further understanding of measles vaccine hesitancy in Khartoum state, Sudan: A qualitative study.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundVaccine hesitancy is one of the contributors to low vaccination coverage in both developed and developing countries. Sudan is one of the countries that suffers from low measles vaccine coverage and from measles outbreaks. In order to facilitate
Majdi M Sabahelzain   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vaccine Myths: Setting the Record Straight [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Despite their standing as one of the most remarkable public health achievements, vaccines have been surrounded by dangerous myths since the development of the smallpox vaccine in the 18th century.
Boom, Julie A   +2 more
core   +1 more source

School-based educational and on-site vaccination intervention among adolescents: study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Childhood vaccination programmes have been established in all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries; however, measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) as well as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio (Tdap-IPV ...
Bethke, Norma   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Investigation of an outbreak of measles: Failure to vaccinate or vaccine failure in a community of predominantly fishermen in Kerala

open access: yesJournal of Infection and Public Health, 2015
Summary: Measles outbreaks continue to occur in developing countries. This study attempted to explore the context of an outbreak of measles in a community of predominantly fishermen in Kerala to find out whether the outbreak was the result of a failure ...
Zinia T. Nujum, Sara Varghese
doaj   +1 more source

Association of Previous Measles Infection With Markers of Acute Infectious Disease Among 9- to 59-Month-Old Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BackgroundTransient immunosuppression and increased susceptibility to other infections after measles infection is well known, but recent studies have suggested the occurrence of an "immune amnesia" that could have long-term immunosuppressive effects ...
Alfonso, Vivian H   +13 more
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