Module 2 - SLP The Clinical Trial Research Industry

The relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry

There are many issues involved with the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry . According to David Goldbloom , he proposed that gifts that the pharmaceutical industry wanted to give physicians should not be gifts , but instead should be materials that are sold to the physician at cost . This not only would avoid the appearance of impropriety , but would lower the overall cost of the drug to consumers . This position was picked up by the American Medical Students Association , who stated that there should be

a complete ban on industry involvement in education

2 ) Ethical and policy issues in research involving human participants

When a pharmaceutical company decides that they are going to conduct a human clinical trial , there are issues of the morality and ethics of conducting clinical trials . One of the first things is that the research subject must have full informed consent about the and the implications of the research that they are going to be involved in Second , the government has in place in protecting the clinical research subject to assure that they are treated in an ethical way and are not subject to abuse or maltreatment in the clinical research process . In these regulations , the physical and emotional effects on the subject are minimized , additionally , the psychological and physical effects are reasonable , given the medical subject matter involved . Finally , all research involving human subjects must be analyzed and approved by the FDA in to assure that...