Pharmacovigilance Feeds EMA’s Transparency Drive
Executive Summary
The scandal surrounding the withdrawal of Servier’s diabetes drug Mediator (benfluorex) continues to rock the French medical establishment, but it also has drawn attention to the issue of regulators' transparency more broadly – including at the European Medicines Agency.
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