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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
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Legislative and administrative actions to increase vaccination coverage in Washington schools

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
Current outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S. highlight the consequences of declining levels of vaccination coverage. Attempts to increase coverage by banning or restricting nonmedical exemptions from school-entry vaccination requirements
Paul L. Delamater, Saad B. Omer
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Mandating Vaccination – Is it Justified?

American Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2021
David A. Fleming, M.D., MA, MACP, FRCP (Center for Health Ethics, University of Missouri School of Medicine)
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The ethics behind mandatory COVID-19 vaccination post-Omicron: The South African context

South African Journal of Science, 2022
The legitimacy of mandatory vaccine policies is underscored by a public health ethics framework based on the principles of limited autonomy, social justice and the common good.
Keymanthri Moodley
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The influence of sociodemographic factors on COVID-19 vaccine certificate acceptance: A cross-sectional study

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023
Vaccine certificates have been implemented worldwide, aiming to promote vaccination rates and to reduce the spread of COVID-19. However, their use during the COVID-19 pandemic was controversial and has been criticized for infringing upon medical autonomy
David Smith, David T. Zhu, Steven Hawken, A. Brianne Bota, Salima S. Mithani, Alessandro Marcon, Gordon Pennycook, Devon Greyson, Timothy Caulfield, Frank Graves, Jeff Smith, Kumanan Wilson   +11 more
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Development of a loop‐mediated isothermal amplification‐lateral flow dipstick (LAMP‐LFD) assay and on‐site rapid detection evaluation for Rodentibacter heylii and Rodentibacter pneumotropicus

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
This study established a closed‐tube LAMP‐LFD assay for detecting Rodentibacter heylii and Rodentibacter pneumotropicus. The method exhibited high sensitivity (detection limits of 10−5 ng/μL for R. heylii and 10−4 ng/μL for R. pneumotropicus), high specificity, reliable performance with clinical samples, and effective validation in experimental ...
Huiqiong Yan, Sisi Chen, Yuhan Gan, Jing Xing, Yufang Feng, Xin Wen, Jie Fang, Jiangtao Du, Shasang Zhou, Honggang Guo, Xiaoyin Jin, Zhiyuan Wang, Junhao Tao, Lingqun Lu, Qingming Kong, Huazhong Ying, Wei Han, Fangwei Dai   +17 more
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Using Best-Worst Scaling to investigate younger adult Canadians’ preferences for COVID-19 vaccination and public health measures: An observational study

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022
Containing the COVID-19 pandemic is dependent on compliance with public health recommendations and mandates which is lower in younger compared to older adults. Furthermore, younger adults have demonstrated lower uptake of COVID-19 vaccines.
Ovidiu Tatar, Ben Haward, Patricia Zhu, Gabrielle Griffin-Mathieu, Samara Perez, Gregory Zimet, Zeev Rosberger   +6 more
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Engraftment of sheep splenic lymphocytes into NBSGW mice and application in Brucella infection

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
A sheep splenocyte‐reconstituted mouse model (Sh‐Spl mice) was established via intravenous injection of sheep splenic lymphocytes into immunodeficient mice to evaluate Brucella infection. Abstract Background The development of immune reconstituted xenograft mouse models has addressed the limitations imposed by interspecies immunological differences in ...
Xiaowei Wang, Shicheng Wan, Yanmin Guo, Hongyu Han, Fei Luo, Dongmei Jiang, Xiaorong Yang, Quanhai Pang, Haisheng Yu, Jinlian Hua   +9 more
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HPV vaccine narratives on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic: a social network, thematic, and sentiment analysis

BMC Public Health, 2023
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has increased online interactions and the spread of misinformation. Some researchers anticipate benefits stemming from improved public awareness of the value of vaccines while others worry concerns around vaccine ...
Jean-Christophe Boucher, So Youn Kim, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, Jack Edwards, Henry Smith, Nicole Frenette, Abbas Badami, Lisa Allen Scott   +7 more
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University-age vaccine mandates: reply to Lam and Nichols

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2023
For the first comparison, we weighed predicted hospitalisations prevented by one booster dose of BNT162b2 with vaccine-associated SAEs from the manufacturer's randomised trial (3/5055).3 We found that the rate of expected SAEs would outweigh the benefits of the booster against hospitalisation by at least 18-fold.
Tracy Beth Høeg, Allison Krug, Stefan Baral, Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Salmaan Keshavjee, Trudo Lemmens, Vinay Prasad, Martin A Makary, Kevin Bardosh   +8 more
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