We present a case of a four-year-old boy who succumbed to diphtheria following incomplete course of immunisation, which included diphtheria vaccine. This case report focuses on the issues of parental refusal to vaccines and the development of "halal" vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases.

The concept of beauty and cosmetics dates back to ancient mankind and civilization. Generally herbal cosmetics are also referred to as natural cosmetics. Herbal cosmetics are formulated, using different cosmetic ingredients to form the base in which one or more herbal ingredients are used to cure various skin ailments. Plants are highly used for development of new drug products for cosmeceutica...

this study investigated the factors affecting the consumption of cosmetics and its use was in fact one of the manifestations of consumerism that is feminine. due to the growing dilemma of women use cosmetics and fashion remembered more as a social issue will be raised. survey results from a sample of 384, a cluster sampling, random, people through cochran formula for women 18-48 years who had b...

A porcine detection methodology based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extraction and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of a specific porcine fragment was used in this paper. With the advent of mass globalization and the fast growing and rapidly changing halal industry of the international market it is of vital need that a practical scientific system be applied and established in the ...

The vast majority of women in modern societies use facial cosmetics, which modify facial cues to attractiveness. However, the size of this increase remains unclear--how much more attractive are individuals after an application of cosmetics? Here, we utilised a 'new statistics' approach, calculating the effect size of cosmetics on attractiveness using a within-subjects design, and compared this ...

BACKGROUND Currently, cosmetic series (Chemotechnique Diagnostics, Sweden) is the most widely used cosmetic-related patch test in Korea. However, no studies have been conducted on how accurately it reflects the constituents of the cosmetics in Korea. OBJECTIVE We surveyed the constituents of various cosmetics and compare with the cosmetic series, to investigate whether it is accurate in deter...

Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia Halal Products Research Institute, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia SynHiTech, Thornhill, Ontario L3T 0C7, Canada Faculty of Biotechnology...