The Solicitor-General is considering whether to re-open a coroner's examination of the death of a woman while she was on a clinical trial of a controversial drug.

Medicines importer Lance Gravatt, who supplies a rival drug, petitioned Solicitor-General Mike Heron QC to hold an inquest and raised questions about the trial medicine, benzbromarone, used to treat gout.

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