Business Research Ethics
Unethical business research happens more often than we think. At times the evidence is clearly there or on the fence. Researchers conclude studies for companies, to find results or outcomes, and report the results to management for a sound decision. However, the problem is some studies or researchers may be basis, but mainly ethics is the issue. My paper is about Bayer the maker of Yasmin and Yaz birth control pills. With all pharmaceutical products, there are side effects. Normally when medicine is purchased in the store, side effects are usually printed on the packaging and bottle for consumers to read and make sound decision about taking the medication. What if the manufacture concealed valuable information
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Unethical behavior affects everyone around, the company, patients, and society.
How could the unethical behavior be avoided or resolved? Unethical behavior could have been avoided by the researchers’ of Bayer’s company. The researchers should have done further studies to insure no person could die from their products. Also to insure healthy women would not become ill from use of their products. Also, when patients started become ill and dying due to Yasmin and Yaz, they should have pulled their product off the shelves. And left the birth control of the shelves till critical research was done to prove Yasmin and Yaz was safe. Patients put their lives, health and trust into doctors and pharmaceutical products thinking medicine is safe and helpful, not poison.
Ethics in business research is very crucial to a company. When businesses run without proper business ethics, it could very detrimental to the company, individuals, and the society. The case with Bayer and their pharmaceutical products Yasmin and Yaz many individuals were affected. The most severe case was Michelle Pfleger death, which her family blames on the birth control Yasmin. The company reputation was blemished, and a negative impact on their sales. The society was affected by the scare of the patients that were also taking Yasmin or Yaz as a way of birth control. Many of the patients may have changed their birth control, not knowing if it would save their lives. Unethical business research
I think Big Pharma companies skew their data very regularly. Although this is not ethical, it's practiced in this field because there is a certain probability calculated as it relates to side effects and ineffectiveness. For instance when we take Tylenol as a child we eventually become tolerant to the dosage. As we get older we need to increase the dosage even more than is advertised to get relief. The Pharma companies do not advertise that ALL pills have a toxicity level and will affect our organs at some point in time. Each pill is tested for toxicity levels before being released to the public. With that said, these companies take on a certain amount of acceptable risk when producing medication. The public has accepted this risk with
The twenty-first century has seen pharmaceutical companies grow in unprecedented size and strength. Due to the unprecedented growth the larger pharmaceutical companies have gained leverage and power in the prescription drug industry, but they lack innovation to market and they seek ways to help the business continue to increase its profits. The pharmaceutical industry was once ethically sound and was a valuable player in the development of human health. However, overtime with the lack of innovation pharmaceutical companies are becoming an unethical market that exploits patients, doctors and anyone else it can to increase its profitability. With eyes only on profitability this can create a hazard for patients because there
The example of unethical or questionable science behavior I have decided to discuss involves informed consent. An article written in the Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology & Research describes informed consent as the process by which individuals are advised of the different facets of research, including risks, that they will be participating in that allows them to make a voluntary and informed decision as to their willingness to engage in the procedure.
An article was chosen from the University Library to evaluate the issue of unethical business research conduct. The article chose is called Flacking for Big Pharma: Drugmakers Don't Just Compromise Doctors; They Also Undermine the Top Medical Journals and Skew the Findings of Medical Research . The identification of the unethical business research involved in the article is given. The parties involved along with effected party is mentioned. The evaluation of the article also identifies how the unethical behavior affected the organization, injured party, and society. A proposition of
Research is important in any business to interpret data being collected to improve or make new discoveries. The article read was about Dr. Woo Suk Hwang who used unethical research to enhance his career in the world of science. Hwang hurt everyone who was involved in his work. Leading people to believe that his research was real he provided false hope into his new discoveries. Trying to figure out why he would want to ruin his career and how this could have been avoided is important to why he used fabricated research. Looking into the unethical decisions made by Dr. Woo Suk Hwang will help people see what could be possible consequences for using false
Instead, they made an attempt at hiding and understating discoveries about one of their most widely sold drugs. Vioxx was a profitable business endeavor, at best, but the price paid by thousands worldwide is worth far more than that. Ethical alternatives could have included; further research before release, immediate labeling changes or withdrawal of medication after the VIGOR study, and openly communicating the dangers of their product. Vioxx is a lesson to all companies that ethical practices are just as important as following the legal standards put forth by the government, especially when the lives of people are at
Drug companies that test experimental drugs in foreign countries are acting unethically. They are acting unethically, such that they are not disclosing results from the tests. As per the national Pharmaceutical Control Bureau’s Web site, there are specific guidelines with which the experimenters would have to adhere to when dealing with drug reactions (Health-Asia, 2007, February 2). Following a practice like this is imperative because patient safety is number one. Additionally, recording results and sharing them is common decency for families that are affiliated with the person being tested. If something bad happened, such as death, families, if present and involved, should be notified. Another reason as to why I feel recording results is important is the fact that it allows for the experimenters/doctors to have visual data of what drugs work and what drugs do not work. This would enable them to potentially improve on any faults that are present in the drugs and prevent future casualties.
The drug corporation place profit above human life while the drug cause complexion of issues relates clinical data on Avandia with a bias report that the medication was safe. Consequently, the Avandia drug many adverse side effects that were generating heart trouble and death to the many of the diabetic patients taking the drug. Therefore, we will learn how the first step in research is essential that there is no bias and that the formulation of the investigation will determine failure or success, the drug companies imply that the study is valid as true, without proof that leads to bias in the pharmaceutical companies that are manufacturing medicinal drugs. The Know bias that I, as a customer how the drug industry money influences over research.
In this paper, I will cover ethical issues within the pharmaceutical industry, present opinion on Direct-to-Consumer marketing by drug companies, determine the parties responsible for regulation of compounding pharmacies, PharmaCARE used U.S. law to protect its own intellectual property, summarize at least one current example of intellectual property theft, analyze the potential issues surrounding the death of John’s wife, and lastly present major arguments that John can claim as a whistleblower.
In today’s society we have found that the best way to find what works for individuals and businesses alike is done through business research. This is not always done in ethical manners though. Some companies tend to ask questions that are inappropriate while others changed the information they have been given to make their product look more appealing. This paper will focus on skewing the research results in the service of selling the drug Neurontin.
I completely agree with you, ignorance is one thing, but to commit evil deeds willingly is a whole different level of low for people like those who are involved with all of these unethical trials. I am glad that you pay attention to the details in your patient charts and it is reassuring that the clinical trials that you are involved with will continue to be fraudulent-free (at least from obvious fraud). All that can be done is to ensure that those who are in charge of monitoring such trials are capable and that they pay close attention to ensure trials like the one in your discussion post do not happen in the future. Thank you for your
The pharmaceutical industry confronts several dilemmas every year. Most of these dilemmas revolve around money or whether or not to sacrifice now for a bigger payoff in the end concerning money and/or lives. Pharmaceutical companies tend to use shortcuts that create ethical problems. Drug companies have spent millions/billions of dollars in research, and they obviously want to see
Some doctors around the country want to expose the corruption of pharmaceutical industries that have been spreading like a tumor. Doctors want to expose them because they get bad deals when it comes down to it. Corruption in the industry has became so fertile that is has been blemishing medical science. Bad results from pharmaceutical companies recently have been submitted as good. Whenever a study has research about doubt on a drug, the negative findings are being transformed into positive findings. Some trials with medicine in the industry do not even end up getting published into the system. “Corruption constitutes a major problem in public sphere and various areas of business” (Polak, 2010). Pharmaceutical corruption is wide spread and a very difficult problem to manage. Managing it has become an issue because its spreading rapidly so it
In my previous job, there was a couple of ethical dilemmas I had over a period of time, but I’m only choosing one of them to focus on in this paper. This situation involved me catching another co-worker stealing products from the shop. I didn’t say anything at first because I thought maybe this person had gotten permission to use these items. I decided from then on that I was going to watch this person closely, to see if they would take anymore products. Sure enough they did, and that was the moment I knew for sure they were stealing from the company. I felt like I had to do something
Market research: ethical danger points in marketing research include: - Invasion of privacy – Stereotyping Market audience: ethical danger points include - targeting the vulnerable children, the elderly - Excluding potential customers from the market: selective marketing is used to discourage demand from undesirable market sectors or disenfranchise them altogether. Pricing ethics: list of unethical pricing practice: - Price fixing - Price skimming - Price discrimination - Price wars - Bid rigging - Dumping