Doctor who first raised alarm over Mediator speaks to press Campaigning lung doctor Irene Frachon, who was instrumental in bringing the alleged wrongdoing to light, speaks to media outside the court where France's medicines watchdog and pharma firm Servier are on trial on fraud and negligence charges. At least 500 people are thought to have died in France after taking the drug Mediator in a major health scandal that was the subject of a 2016 French movie called "150 Milligrams", which was based on the work of Dr Frachon. She raised the alarm after noticing in 2007 an apparent pattern of heart problems in people who had used Mediator. SOUNDBITE