Glaxco Smith Case

The article that I chose to discuss was in regards to Glaxo Smith Kline and their urge to keep them from researching and testing their drug trials. Glaxo Smith Kline is a British multinational pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is a very well-known drug company and is actually one of the top three drug companies in the world. This would make a person think that they would be one of the reputable companies, but that is not true. Even though they were very well known and a huge company, they still had issues that made their research unethical. They also had ways and means of how things were done unethical as well. For example, from 2007 to 2008, 14 babies had died due to vaccine misinformation in a lab. There were vaccine trials that were told to the general public that they were safe but then after the fact it was proven that they were not safe. What was even worse was that the company knew all along that it was not safe and they did nothing about it. By the time this information was made public, it was already too late and unfortunately those 14 innocent babies died, 14 families were now without their children because of the unethical decisions of Glaxo Smith Kline. Then in 2012 there was a lawsuit against GSK for faking research, bribing doctors, and promoting drugs in unapproved ways. In this settlement they were made to pay over 3 million dollars! This pay out ended up being the largest payout from a drug company in the history of pharmaceuticals! Glaxo Smith Kline was using drugs such as Paxil and Wellbutrin to advertise that they were for many things such as depression, sexual dysfunction, and even Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder when in reality the drugs had not been proven to take care of those issues that they were claiming it would. One would have thought that after a company had the issues that they did throughout the years, that maybe they would have made sure they were doing things correctly and that the decisions they were making would be legal, proper, and ethical. However just last year,