A French court has heard the start of a trial involving a weight loss pill that public health officials say may have been responsible for as many as 2,000 deaths.
The massive trial, with 25 defendants and 2,600 plaintiffs, centers on Mediator, a Type 2 diabetes drug that was found to suppress appetite and was later prescribed as a weight loss aid.However, the pill caused pulmonary hypertension -- high blood pressure in blood vessels that supply the lungs -- and heart complications, leading to death from heart failure and cardiac arrest in some patients.
"That's why there are doctors, pharmacologists and officials that are being accused of conflicts of interest."Purdue Pharma has filed for bankruptcy as part of a plan to settle opioid lawsuits. Here's what we knowHe said some of the alleged victims accepted compensation payments because they needed the money, and he hoped the case would help to prevent similar scandals happening again.
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