Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine

Knowledge facilitation at AstraZeneca

It is commonplace today to make claims that we are living in a knowledgebased, post-industrial society (Teece, 2000; Burton-Jones, 1999). In the knowledge society, the ability to make fruitful use of abstract, codified and symbol-based information serve as a major production factor. Such ability to make use of information is generally referred to as knowledge (Boisot, 1998). In the field of org...

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The effect of Microcrystalline cellulose as cushioning excipient during controlled release AstraZeneca

In the pharmaceutical industry, it is always important to have reproducible processes and raw materials of high quality to ensure good quality products. AstraZeneca, that is a leading manufacturer of different pharmaceuticals, works according to GMP to make sure that their processes deliver products of the same quality every time. A problem that has occurred at AstraZeneca is when a raw materia...

Vaccine demand driven by vaccine side effects: dynamic implications for SIR diseases.

For infections for which the perceived risk of serious disease is steadily low, the perceived risk of suffering some vaccine side effects might become the driving force of the vaccine demand. We investigate the dynamics of SIR infections in homogeneously mixing populations where the vaccine uptake is a decreasing function of the current (or past) incidence, or prevalence, of vaccine side effect...

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