Comments on: If only Avandia were more like Toyota https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/ Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Oakley https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/comment-page-1/#comment-36351 Sat, 26 May 2012 18:46:49 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1859#comment-36351 Brilliant analogy: Avandia and Toyota. Thx for this – love your site.

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]]> By: U.K. Lass https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/comment-page-1/#comment-19612 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:31:58 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1859#comment-19612 “….a Cleveland Clinic study suggested that Avandia increased a user’s odds of heart attack by 43%…”

Are you telling me that despite these findings from what’s considered the #1 heart institute in North America, some physicians are still prescribing this drug to some of their patients?

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]]> By: Ivy https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/comment-page-1/#comment-8316 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:39:11 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1859#comment-8316 Why do we seem to have different standards when it comes to accountability in the car business but not in the pharmaceutical business?

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]]> By: Nimh https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/comment-page-1/#comment-7819 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:02:25 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1859#comment-7819 <>

Is the FDA on the payroll of big pharma too now? heads should roll for this.

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]]> By: Ed Coyt https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/comment-page-1/#comment-7400 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:33:30 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1859#comment-7400 “…Patients now taking Avandia may continue to do so….”

How is this even possible? What kind of doctor would continue prescribing Avandia given the weight of damaging evidence against it? It’s totally banned in Europe. Why are our doctors not following their lead?

This is a shocking story of corporate corruption for the sole purpose of selling more drugs, dangerous or not.

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]]> By: Pub Grub https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/comment-page-1/#comment-5108 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:33:32 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1859#comment-5108 Brilliant analogy. Thanks for this.

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]]> By: Wynne https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/comment-page-1/#comment-3030 Tue, 04 May 2010 18:02:39 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1859#comment-3030 It’s sometimes useful to put issues like these into perspective. Thank you for doing this for us here. It does make one wonder why these drug-linked deaths are not front page news like the Toyota scandal was?

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]]> By: FDA Warnings https://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/02/drugs-toyotas/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:36:15 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1859#comment-724 We have put a link to this article from our site […] Avandia (which is the brand name for the Type 2 diabetes drug rosiglitazone, manufatured by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline) was once taken by millions worldwide, but that changed after a Cleveland Clinic study released in early May of 2007 … The rest is here: If only Avandia were more like Toyota . . . « The Ethical Nag […]

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