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Mediator° disaster: the damning appeal judgement

 Outlook   In late December 2023, the Paris appeal court found the pharmaceutical company Servier guilty of all the criminal offences of which it was accused: "aggravated deception", "aggravated involuntary bodily harm and manslaughter", "fraud" and "improperly obtaining" and subsequently renewing marketing authorisation for benfluorex (Mediator°, since withdrawn). Prescrire has published excerpts from the 1101-page judgement, illustrating the position of the appeal judges on Servier's culpability.
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Source: "Mediator° disaster: the damning appeal judgement" Prescrire Int 2024; 33 (265): 303-306. Free.

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