Pill against diabetes causes deaths

• April 30, 2024

The Health Product Safety Agency of France (AFSSAPS) has warned that about 500 people could have died from the intake of a diabetes medication that currently is no longer in the market, publishes Digital Journal. The drug was marketed for 33 years until French authorities banned it and have pronounced with the recommendation that people who took it between 2006 and 2009 go to their doctor to rule out possible problems in the heart valve . The product known as Mediator It was sold until last year as a treatment for diabetes and obesity and could have caused damage to the heart valve and the death of 500 people, according to the Associated Press.Mexico is one of the countries that still has Mediator circulating in the market in accordance with the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) because there is no record of adverse reactions , indicates the newspaper El Siglo de Torreón.