The families of four French pensioners who died after taking a blood-thinning drug have launched legal action against the drug's German manufacturer and France's national agency for medication safety, it emerged on Wednesday.
The four families have decided to bring charges of “involuntary homicide” or manslaughter, against ANSM, France’s National Agency for the Safety of Health Products, and Boehringer Ingelheim, the German pharmaceutical which makes Pradaxa, the families’ lawyer said on Wednesday.
Their loved ones, who were aged between 78 and 84 and living in or near Paris, Lille, Strasbourg and Grenoble, died of haemorrhages earlier this year after taking Pradaxa, a prescribed anticoagulant medication.
The families’ lawyer Philippe Courtois accused the German makers of the drug of keeping the victims in the dark about the risks of Pradaxa.
“Major information was not brought to the attention of patients and consumers, by way of the product label, thereby violating their free and informed consent,” he told French daily Le Parisien.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20131009/pradaxa-drugs-France-blood-thinning-boehringer-ingelheim
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