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Mediator° - the criminal trial
Mediator° - the criminal trial
Prescrire and Mediator° since 1986
Special section: Mediator° - the criminal trial
Contents
Prescrire and Mediator° since 1986
What's at stake
"Faces of Mediator", a book published by Prescrire
The Prescrire method: quality and independence
Key texts
around the Mediator° disaster from Prescrire International and english.prescrire.org
The independent French medical journal Prescrire began asking questions about Mediator° (benfluorex) in 1986, and was calling for its withdrawal 12 years before the French authorities finally took action. Here's a selection of key texts published in the English edition Prescrire International. (June 2021)
Timeline
Key dates in the Mediator° disaster, 1976-2019
First marketed in France in 1976, Mediator° (benfluorex) was not withdrawn from the French market until 2009, despite warnings published in Prescrire some 12 years earlier (October 2019)
The Mediator° disaster
So much time wasted, so many lives destroyed
The criminal trial around the Mediator° (benfluorex) disaster opened in France in September 2019. The articles published by Prescrire over the years provide some insight into the key issues. (December 2019)
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