A book written with four hands, which sends shivers down your spine because of the relentless mechanics it describes.
No frills, Health in an organized gang describes behind the scenes of several health scandals in France, that of the Mediator in particular. In this long-term investigation, Anne Jouan, who for twenty years was a journalist at the Figaroand Professor Christian Riché, a long-time expert at the French Medicines Agency, tell the strings she had to pull to untangle the intricacies between pharmaceutical groups, in particular the French laboratory Servier, political leaders, medical mandarins , spooks and officials of the French Medicines Agency.
Armed with her unfailing stubbornness, the journalist ends up demonstrating that this last instance, created after the contaminated blood affair to put order in drug policy in France, withdraw dangerous treatments and supervise clinical trials, has failed.
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The Mediator affair, revealed by pulmonologist Irène Frachon in a book in June 2010, serves as a common thread…
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