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

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   Alzheimer’s new drug “donanemab”:
         ・Increases hemorrhagic stroke with deaths 
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         ・If you want to see Japanese-written documents in which
           hemorrhagic stroke events are described, please refer:
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         ・Summary opinion of this review distributed by Kyodo News
              (October 30, 2024) and some recent example clippings with
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Adverse Reactions
    Paroxetine:
             Hostility, aggression, violence, agitation and crime

 

MedCheck No. 30(September 2024)

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

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       Palivizumab (Synagis®): in RSV high-risk Children
           Is it useful for preventing RSV infection?
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      Nirsevimab (Beyfortus®): for universal immunization against RSV
           RSV-related hospitalizations decrease, but deaths increase
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MedCheck No29 (May 2024)

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Editorial

Healthy vaccinee effect: a key bias in observational studies


Review

HPV vaccine increase total and cancer mortality without evidence of HPV-related cancer decrease

1.RCTs show increased cancer and total mortality
2. All observational studies failed to provide evidence for invasive cancer prevention
3.  Column: Healthy vaccinee effect in observational studies
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Erratum
References 23 and 24 for the main text are corrected to as ffollows:
23) Wheeler CM, Skinner SR, Del Rosario-Raymundo MR, Garland SM, Chatterjee A, Lazcano-Ponce E, et al. Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of the human papillomavirus 16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine in women older than 25 years: 7-year follow-up of the phase 3, double blind, randomised controlled VIVIANE study. Lancet Infectious Diseases 2016;16(10):1154-68.
24) Skinner SR, Szarewski A, Romanowski B, Garland SM, Lazcano-Ponce E, Salmeron J. Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of the human papillomavirus 16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine in women older than 25 years: 4-year interim follow-up of the phase 3, double-blind, randomised controlled VIVIANE study. Lancet 2014;384(9961): 2213–27.

MedCheck No 28 (December 2023)

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Editorial
  Unavoidable adverse reactions to Alzheimer s agent

Review
  Lecanemab removes substitute of lost cells leading to brain
  hemorrhage and atrophy

Vaccine Information
     Is it trueSeveral vaccines reduce Alzheimer s disease ?
       Beware of distortion by healthy-vaccine effect

New Products
    GLP-1 agonist for obesity: Semaglutide (Wegovy)
       Too many adverse effects including suicide. Do not use


Errata for line 13-14, left column on p54 (PDF is already corrected)

Before:
           Adrenergic-mediated action is essential for weight
       loss with GLP-1 agonists [16]. 
Corrected: 
            Adrenergic-mediated action is essential for weight
        loss with GLP-1 agonists, because GLP-1 did not decrease
       body weight of triple beta-adrenoreceptor knockout
        mice [16]

MedCheck No 27 (September 2023)

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Editorial
Be Vigilant On a New Anti-Alzheimer’s Drug


Review

Lecanemab for Alzheimer’s disease
 No evidence to delay progress, should not be approved
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COVID-19 Information

SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Increases Arryuthmia Mortality
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SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Increases Venous Thrombosis Mortality
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Vaccines and monoclonal antidies: ineffective
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