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Cross-sectional analysis of financial relationships between board certified allergists and the pharmaceutical industry in Japan
BackgroundFinancial interactions between pharmaceutical companies and physicians lead to conflicts of interest. This study examines the extent and...
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Animals in Research in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Since early Greek times, animals have provided knowledge critical to understanding human anatomy, physiology, disease injuries, development of...
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Cure or Sell: How Do Pharmaceutical Industry Marketers Combine Their Dual Mission? An Approach Using Moral Dissonance
Pharmaceutical industry marketers are confronted with specific ethical issues linked to the tension between the economic interest being pursued and...
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Transparency or restricting gifts? Polish medical students’ opinions about regulating relationships with pharmaceutical sales representatives
Relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs) often create conflicts of interest, not least because of the various...
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Data privacy protection in scientific publications: process implementation at a pharmaceutical company
BackgroundSharing anonymized/de-identified clinical trial data and publishing research outcomes in scientific journals, or presenting them at...
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Patient distrust in pharmaceutical companies: an explanation for women under-representation in respiratory clinical trials?
BackgroundPatient skepticism concerning medical innovations can have major consequences for current public health and may threaten future progress,...
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Patient Advocacy Organizations and Conflicts of Interest in Research
Patient advocacy organizations are non-profit groups with important roles in advocacy for patient interests. Many patient organizations are also...
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Considerations for applying bioethics norms to a biopharmaceutical industry setting
BackgroundThe biopharmaceutical industry operates at the intersection of life sciences, clinical research, clinical care, public health, and...
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Ethical and regulatory implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the medical devices industry and its representatives
The development and deployment of medical devices, along with most areas of healthcare, has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Nootropics in the Era of Affective Capitalism: Drug Consumption and Discourse Effects
This chapter discusses the transmutation of meaning from psychotropic to nootropic (drugs for cognitive enhancement) as a constituent element of the...
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On the Normative Foundations of Pharmaceutical Regulation
I argue that behind the 1962 Food and Drug Administration Act we find a combination of two normative principles: a liberal argument for the...
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Managerial Discretion, Market Failure and Democracy
Managers often have discretion in interpreting their ethical requirements, and they should seek democratic guidance in doing so. The undemocratic...
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Recent efforts to elucidate the scientific validity of animal-based drug tests by the pharmaceutical industry, pro-testing lobby groups, and animal welfare organisations
BackgroundEven after several decades of human drug development, there remains an absence of published, substantial, comprehensive data to validate...
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Participants’ awareness of ethical compliance, safety and protection during participation in pharmaceutical industry clinical trials: a controlled survey
BackgroundThe rapid increase of industry-sponsored clinical research towards develo** countries has led to potentially complex ethical issues to...
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Professional Ethics, Professionalization, and Regulation of Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives: Analyzing the Costa Rican Case
The purpose of this essay is to present an argument in favor of a strong state regulation of sales representatives working for pharmaceutical...
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The Health Impact Fund and the Problem of Corruption in the Global Pharmaceutical Sector
The goal of this chapter is to examine the Health Impact Fund, a proposal aimed at solving the problem of access to pharmaceuticals for the global...
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Justifying a morally permissible breach of contract: kantian ethics, nozickian justice, and vaccine patents
Although some have argued that COVID-19 vaccine patents are morally justified, a broader argument on the morality of breaching contracts is...
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Structural Problems in the Practice of Psychiatric Research
This chapter examines various structural and institutional loop-holes and market incentives that allow pharmaceutical companies to maximize profits...
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Environmental risk and market approval for human pharmaceuticals
This paper contributes to the growing discussion about how to mitigate pharmaceutical pollution, which is a threat to human, animal, and...
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Should infectious disease modelling research be subject to ethics review?
Should research projects involving epidemiological modelling be subject to ethical scrutiny and peer review prior to publication? Mathematical...