E-drug: Prescrire on public report on Mediator disaster
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Dear colleagues
Prescrire applauds the report on benfluorex-Mediator° from France’s Inspection Générale des Affaires Sociales or IGAS, the public welfare inspectorate. The IGAS report details the unacceptable behaviour of the drug company Servier, as well as the numerous dysfunctions, equally unacceptable, on the part of drug regulatory bodies. These behaviours exposed patients to totally unjustified risks and resulted in a large number of victims.
The full Prescrire press release can be found at http://english.prescrire.org/en/81/168/46752/0/NewsDetails.aspx
Christophe Kopp
Prescrire International
Website: http://www.english.prescrire.org