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Marketing Authorisations
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Attractive, but close monitoring required
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Remain on the market in France and Europe, despite cutaneous adverse effects
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No benefit despite statistical manipulation
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Adverse Effects
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Avoid using for mild regurgitation
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Weight loss, potentially fatal aspiration pneumonia
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Further undermines its role in type 2 diabetes
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Precautions are required in patients at risk
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Reviews
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Inform psychologically vulnerable patients of the risk of serious, dose-dependent disorders
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Outlook
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Lower diagnostic thresholds and medicalisation of life
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Off-label promotion: shifting a balance of power that benefits industry
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About the benfluorex scandal in France
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