Deadly drug Mediator continued to be sold in France due to high-level political connections...

French Health Minister Xavier Bertrand has promised a complete revamp of the country's medical regulatory system.

He was speaking after an official report said a diabetes drug which caused up to 2,000 deaths should have been banned 10 years earlier.

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. More...

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