Monday, January 17, 2011

Falhas de Governo: Regulação de Remédios na França

The drug - known as Mediator - should have been banned as early as 1999, when it began to emerge that it could cause heart disease, the report said. Several other European countries and the US then withdrew it. But Mediator remained on sale in France for another 10 years. Between 500 and 2,000 people in France are believed to have died because of its side effects

2 comments:

  1. Good example of government failure.

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  2. Velha tradição francesa. Nos anos 80 distribuíram sangue contaminado com HIV. O Laurent Fabius foi responsabilizado mas depois voltou à cena política. Lixo!

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