Servier's Mediator 'probably responsible for 1,300 deaths'
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Executive Summary
Servier's Mediator (benfluorex), the product at the centre of the French regulatory storm, was probably responsible for around 1,300 deaths and 3,100 hospitalisations due to heart valve damage, according to a new French study.
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