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The Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance (HAIRS) group identifies and assesses emerging infection risks to human health.
How to minimise the risk of disease from animal wool and hair, register your site, and dispose of materials you don't want.
This report summarises the work of the HAIRS group during 2011 and 2012.
Risk review and statement on the risk sporotrichosis in cats presents to the UK human population.
The MHRA will introduce a patient alert card to increase awareness among men taking finasteride about potential psychiatric and sexual side effects
Summary of the risk assessment processes used by the Human Animal Infections Risk Surveillance group to identify, assess and report potential infectious threats.
This report summarises the topics discussed and work done by the HAIRS group between 2013 and 2015.
Kirstin Gray joined the Government Chemist in 2009. She worked at Leatherhead Food Research Association, before joining LGC, a life sciences research and testing company, in 1999. She has more than 20 years’ experience providing analytical services to private and...
This report summarises the topics discussed and work done by the HAIRS group in 2017.
This report summarises the topics discussed and work done by the HAIRS group in 2016.
A patient alert card is being introduced for men taking finasteride to help raise awareness of the risk of psychiatric side effects and sexual dysfunction, including the potential for sexual dysfunction to persist after treatment has stopped. Healthcare professionals are...
Product recall for One Step Hair Dryer and Styler sold via Amazon with ASIN B096FY8LXP presenting a high risk of electric shock, fire and burns.
Rules for digital and printed passport photos and how to get one
Paper prepared by the Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance group (HAIRS).
Alastair Gray is Professor of Health Economics in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. He has previously held academic appointments at the University of Aberdeen, the Open University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine....
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