Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The first French trial has begun over a diabetes drug that was also used to lose weight and is suspected in the deaths of at least 500 people.
The pharmaceutical group Servier is suspected of "aggravated deception" for hiding the fact that the drug known as Mediator contained an amphetamine called benfluorex ? which was taken off the market in 2009 after being found to thicken heart valves.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/French-trial-opens-in-diabetes-diet-drug-scandal-3556344.php
The pharmaceutical group Servier is suspected of "aggravated deception" for hiding the fact that the drug known as Mediator contained an amphetamine called benfluorex ? which was taken off the market in 2009 after being found to thicken heart valves.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/French-trial-opens-in-diabetes-diet-drug-scandal-3556344.php