Despite Long Record of Misadventures, Johnson and Johnson to Receive Award for " Ethical Leadership?! "

What does it take for a big pharmaceutical/ device/ biotechnology company to get an ethics award?Reported by Sheila Kaplan at Stat (but for subscribers only), and first noticed by Carl Elliott and justdiscussed on his Fear and Loathing in Bioethics blog, it appears that the giant Johnson and Johnson pharma/ device/ biotech company will get an award in " ethical leadership " from and " organization called Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, or FASPE. "The Stat report, quoted by Dr Elliott, stated:FASPE Chairman David Goldman, an attorney in New York, said he wasaware of the pharma giant ’s various ethical tangles, but believes the company hasmoved beyond them. ' We do think they ’ve acknowledged their failures and taken the apropriate steps to resolve them, ' he said. ' They know what they ’ve done; we talked to them about it and they’ve taken the right action. 'However,Others disagree, noting that in 2013, J&J and its subsidiaries agreed to pay $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil allegations of improperly promoting several prescription drugs, including paying kickbacks to physicians. That was one of the largest health care fraud settlements in US history. The company has also lost recent product liability cases involving allegations of its talcum powder causing ovarian cancer.If only it were just that.In fact, we have been writing about the ethical misadventures of Johnson and Johnson for a long time.  Our collected posts are...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: crime health care ethics Johnson and Johnson legal settlements Source Type: blogs