French drugmaker on trial for diabetes pill deaths | The Malaysian Insight

French drugmaker on trial for diabetes pill deaths

Though initially intended for overweight people with diabetes, Mediator was widely prescribed to healthy individuals as an appetite suppressant. – AFP pic, September 21, 2019.

FRANCE’S medicines watchdog will join a pharma firm in the dock from Monday on fraud and negligence charges linked to the deaths of multiple people prescribed a diabetes pill for weight loss despite safety concerns. At least 500 people are thought to have died of heart valve problems in France after taking the drug, Mediator, in a major health scandal that became the subject of a 2016 French movie called 150 Milligrams.

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