In the early 1970s, Congress directed the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to create a commission for the purpose of ascertaining the important principles that should guide biomedical research that uses human research subjects. The report of this commission was to be published by the Secretary in the Federal Register and, unless the Secretary made any other proposals, it was to become...

Pharmaceutical production and distribution constitute big business. For the companies the rewards can be substantial. Rates of return on drug company investments tend to be higher than many other manufacturing enterprises. But reward is only one side of the story. There is also the issue of social risk, the focus of this article. Social risk for pharmaceutical production is especially pronounce...

ISSN: 1526-5161 (Print) 1536-0075 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uajb20 Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals Carson Strong To cite this article: Carson Strong (2010) Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals, The American Journal of Bioethics, 10:1, 13-15 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10...

If a drug company wanted to create the ideal cholesterol-lowering medication, here's what it would make: a safe, inexpensive pill that lowered levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol and triglycerides, raised HDL (good) cholesterol, and changed the sizes of cholesterol particles to make them less harmful or more beneficial. Of the current cholesterol-lowering drugs on the market, niacin comes closest t...

Studies of drug treatments are more likely to report favourable outcomes when they are funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We compared drug trials reported in three major psychiatric journals to investigate these influences. Independent studies were more likely to report negative findings than industry-funded studies. However, the involvement of a drug company employee had a much greater eff...

As the web emerged, almost every traditional offline brand created its own website. Two strategies were mainly pursued by brick-and-mortar companies: some translated their brand with the corresponding name, image and values to the website and others created a new brand name to exist on the net. As the expression of a brand on the Internet is not really limited, it is not evident that the image ...

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/deadly-medicine-201101?printable=true&currentPage=all[5/21/2011 8:50:22 AM] TAKE TWO ASPIRIN More and more clinical trials for new drugs are being outsourced overseas and conducted by companies for hire. Is oversight even possible? Photographs © Imagebroker/Alamy, from Image Source/Jupiter Images, © Vincent O’Byrne/Alamy (skulls); © Jason Salm...

This study aims to investigate the corporate image of six significant online organizational communities and their efforts achieve sustainability. The research focuses on exploring communication, interaction, connection strategies employed by these companies social media platforms build image. adopts a Netnography approach, employing thematic content analysis, sentiment network analysis analyze ...

This article discusses the effectiveness of paid counter-advertising in combating tobacco use and promotion, the impact of the Fairness Doctrine, which mandated anticigarette television advertisements in the late 1960s, and reasons why the media today are reluctant to run antismoking advertisements. Although counter-advertisements can work very well, they should be image-based, rather than fact...

This study analyzes the effect of greenwash on consumer green purchasing behavior by a company mediated role company's brand image. was conducted consumers who know about bottled drinking water product brands in Indonesia. Primary data performed using questionnaire with total 385 data. The this is quantitative. uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). software used LISREL 8.8 and SPSS 22. resul...