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A French court has found pharma giant Servier guilty of "aggravated fraud" and "involuntary manslaughter" over a diabetes and weight loss pill blamed for hundreds of deaths in one of the country's worst health scandals. The drug Mediator was on the market for 33 years and used by about five million people before being pulled in 2009 over fears it could cause serious heart problems -- more than a decade after such concerns had first been raised. IMAGES of criminal court in Paris
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for $675 million (613 million euros) in donations for a plan to fight the novel coronavirus, mainly through investment in countries considered particularly "at risk". SOUNDBITE
France's new Prime Minister Michel Barnier (LR), appointed on Thursday by Emmanuel Macron, is making his first field visit to the SAMU at Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris. IMAGES
The Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Samuel-Roger Kamba, thanks the European Union after the first vaccines against Mpox, donated by the EU arrived in the country, the epicentre of the epidemic, which is due to receive a total of 200,000 doses this week. "My initial reaction is one of joy and satisfaction at the cooperation we have with the European Union," Kamba adds. SOUNDBITE
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of an mpox outbreak, receives its first vaccines -- almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by the end of the week to fight its spread. IMAGES
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