Drug Executive Faces Manslaughter Charges

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A French court brought manslaughter and injury charges on Tuesday against a drug executive and six companies in a case involving a diabetes and weight-loss drug that caused cardiovascular damage, the Paris public prosecutor?s office said.

The executive, Jacques Servier, 90, and six companies of the Servier group are accused of having known the risks associated with the drug, Mediator, which they produced and marketed until French authorities ordered it withdrawn in 2009, the spokeswoman, Agn?s Thibault-Lecuivre, said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/business/drug-executive-faces-manslaughter-charge.html?ref=health
 
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