Kusuri-no-Check
"Check-up Your Medicines to Save Your Life"
No.7 Essential Drugs
Contents
Message from Abroad
- Ellen't Hoen
Coordinator, Globalisation Project of Medecins sans Frontieres Access to Essential Medicines Campaign (France)
Main Feature: Essential Drugs
■What is/isn't essential? Q&A
HAMA, Rokuro
■Remembering only drug brand name could lead to misunderstanding
■Acetaminophen, a powerful drug?!
■Examples of essential drugs:
antipyretic, analgesic, drug for gout, strong pain killer such as for cancer, drug for rheumatism, antihypertensive, drug for angina, antiarrhythmic drug, drug for cardiac failure, preventive drug for myocardial infarction etc…
■Good bye to brands, hello to generics
HONDA, Takanari
Series
■The Relay Essay "Faith in medicine"
HARUMOTO, Sachiko
■How to communicate with doctors
"What's the role of pharmacists in the separation of dispensary from medicine?"
■Medicine in Film: Insulin
KIMOTO, Yasusuke
■Bioethics in Lay Language 7 "History of bioethics 2"
TANIDA, Noritoshi
■History of Drug Disaster 3: Thalidomide
"Damage caused by thalidomide"
MASUYAMA, Yukari
"Epidemiology and administrative judgment"
How to decide ban on a drug, using epidemiological data? : thalidomide as an example
TSUDA, Toshihide
■Interview by Editor in Chief
With Ms. ABE, Masako (Editor of Japanese version WHO The Use of Essential Drugs)
"Patients, defend yourself with essential drugs!!"
■Coffee Break: "Don't be deceived by advertisements (3)" Agaricus
■Visit1: Rescue Association for Victims of Medical Malpractice, Founding Mini-symposium
■Visit2: Association for Medical Accident Investigation, The 7th Symposium
Topic
■Dietary Supplement
TERAOKA, Akio
■Editorial
That is in Japan where the essential drug concepts should be propagated.
HAMA, Rokuro
■Evaluation of antibiotics and the price list
■Readers' Voice
■Correspondence
Words Frequently Heard at Hospital
Drug price---Prices of new drugs in Japan are too high compared with those in many Western countries.
Local drug---drugs used only in Japan