The Responsibility of Drug Companies Whose Drugs Cause Negative Side Effects

The official website for the drug Olanzapine probably didn’t mention the fact it might cause diabetic symptoms in patients. Another website obviously did. Commercials on TV now are required to mention possible side effects. Should drug companies be required to come clean about situations like the one with Eli Lilly’s Olanzapine in their commercial websites? Why or why not?

According to Abelson, Eli Lilly kept the negative side effects of Zyprexa a secret from users. Apparently, people had sued Lilly claiming that the drug caused them diabetes, but Lilly tried to keep these documents hidden and only accessible to the company. Well, these documents somehow got published on the web making them reachable to web surfers with only a few mouse clicks. When situations like this happen to drug companies, they should be required to come clean about it in their official websites. At the point when a drug is supposedly causing consumers Pancreatitis and Diabetes, it is worth more than a company’s reputation to admit to it; were talking about peoples’ lives here. Diabetes is a very serious thing and if it can be contracted from the drug, than people deserve to know about it. If people have already sued the drug company for this problem, then there is no saying that it won’t happen again. I have actually seen commercials for other types of drugs on TV warning consumers about the dangers that it may cause. I recently saw a commercial for a certain birth control saying that if you have taken it, then to contact a doctor right away because the pill can lead to serious side effects. This was the right thing to do because it is taking the lives of people into consideration even though it is destroying the business for the drug.