Medcheck in English No.35(JUN 2026)NEW!!

JUN 2026

MedCheck in English No.35

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Contents


Editorial

 

Threat of a New Drug Disaster:What Can We Do?

 

Petition

 

Petition to Stop Plans for Routine Vaccination with Abrysvo ®

   Press release~Click here~

 ➡Rapid responses to BMJ article:

・Concerns Regarding Imbalance in Randomization in Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine Trial       ~Click here~

・Concerns Regarding Primary Endpoint Assessment in Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine Trial   ~Click here~No.1 No.2

・What does increased RSV-negative LRTI mean?                                                         ~Click here~

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