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3 May 2012
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France’s newly-formed National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (MSNA), which will ostensibly replace Afssaps, announced 5 May that it will retain its existing leader, Dominique
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1 May 2012
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France has created a new agency, the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (MSNA), to replace its current regulatory agency, Afssaps.The move was announced 29 April in
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3 February 2012
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A European Commission (EC) study of the breast implant products manufactured by French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) has come to inconclusive results regarding the rupture rate of PIP’s breast
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3 February 2012
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The offices of French regulatory authority Afssaps were searched by French investigators on 2 February as part of an investigation in to deaths associated with Servier’s anti-diabetes drug Mediator,
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26 January 2012
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Two former executives of the French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) were arrested on 24 January by French investigators, who may charge at least one of them with manslaughter for their role in a
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6 January 2012
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European Medicines Agency (EMA) Executive Director Guido Rasi and French Health Minister Xavier Bertrand called on the EU to require medical device makers to go through a more rigorous approvals
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4 January 2012
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The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) today released statements indicating that, “there is no evidence of an increased rupture rate for PIP [Poly Implant Prothese] silicone gel breast
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2 January 2012
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The Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) scandal raging across Europe right now highlights the failings of regulatory agencies to effectively use post-marketing registries, claims Reuters journalist Anna
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28 December 2011
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A French company under investigation for selling substandard silicone breast implants used unapproved industrial-grade silicone for implants, according to the company’s lawyer. In an interview with
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