MedCheck in English No 33 (Aug 2025)

 

MedCheck in English No.33

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Contents


Editorial

  Information Sharing to Prevent Adverse Reactions

 

Review
  From Familiar Adverse Reactions to 
    Adverse Reaction-Prescribing Cascades

 

Adverse Reactions  
 Reproductive Toxicity of Paroxetine (Paxil)
 -Focus on Withdrawal Syndrome and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension- 
 Preclinical part of Summary Technical Documentation for paroxetine (Paxil)(in Japanese)

 

Memorial Tribute
 Mr. Charles Medawar
  A lifetime of activities breaking down barriers  between patients and medical professionals
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MedCheck in English No 32 (April 2025)

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Contents
Editorial
  Why difficult to evaluate drug efficacy and harm?

New Products
  RSV vaccine (Abrysvo®) :
     Harms and suspected false negatives & allocation bias

Topic  
  How to Review Clinical Trials of new product
         Intranazal flu vaccine, FluMist® as an example  

Questions and Comments
    What is the theoretical basis for healthy vaccinee effect?
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Errata (Typos):  PDF is already corrected
line 2-3, right column on p7

   Before:vaccine group as in the placebo group (5 vs. 12 cases, respectively) 
   Corrected: placebo group as in the vaccine group (12 vs. 5 cases, respectively)
line 3 from the bottom of right column on p15
   Before: 39.8% in the placebo group
   Corrected:39.8% in the vaccine group
For others, see the table for Errata

 

 

MedCheck in English No.31 (December 2024)

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Contents
Editorial
    Why a harmful and useless agent became an expensive new drug?

New Products 
   Alzheimer’s new drug “donanemab”:
         ・Increases hemorrhagic stroke with deaths 
                  Web-Appendix Free
         ・If you want to see Japanese-written documents in which
           hemorrhagic stroke events are described, please refer:
                 Web-Appendix in Japanese Free
         ・Summary opinion of this review distributed by Kyodo News
              (October 30, 2024) and some recent example clippings with
             English translation:  News paper clippings Free 

Adverse Reactions
    Paroxetine:
             Hostility, aggression, violence, agitation and crime

 

MedCheck No. 30(September 2024)

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Contents
Editorial
What the Government Should Do Before Introducing the Replicon Vacce
(self-amplifying mRNA vaccine)

New Products related
       Palivizumab (Synagis®): in RSV high-risk Children
           Is it useful for preventing RSV infection?
          Supplementary Appendix Free

New Products
      Nirsevimab (Beyfortus®): for universal immunization against RSV
           RSV-related hospitalizations decrease, but deaths increase
          Supplementary Appendix Free