Drug companies and websites

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?

            I think they should have to because I personally know someone who has had a similar situation happen to them in which they were taking medication to help one problem but then ended up getting a specific disease along with thousands of others who had the same thing happen to them. It’s only fair for the companies to admit that they didn’t come outright with all of the possibilities the drug can cause. I think it’s important for it to be mandatory now for drug companies to state the possible side effects and diseases a medicine can cause or lead to but I think it’s just as important for the companies who didn’t have to do so in the past to tell the public now. I personally would want to know if I had been taking a medicine for years not knowing I could develop breast or some other cancer from it and although I’d be upset just to find out today, it’s better than nothing because then I could choose to discontinue taking the medicine if I wanted to. Also, for the company I feel like that is information that would leak onto the internet somehow and I think it looks better and more responsible on the company’s end to put the complete truth of whatever information they withheld before to the public instead of finding out other ways.

Although with a case like Lilly’s one, it can obviously hurt that companies reputation even just beyond that specific product because even if you win a legal battle to take all the stuff and documents people posted about the lawsuit, etc. could and probably will shop up on the internet somehow, it’s ultimately their fault and more importantly their responsibility. It’s only fair that if a drug company or whoever didn’t list all the possible side effects, etc. or at least have them available and open to the public as much as possible that they should come clean about letting the public down in that way because you aren’t talking about just money or anything but people’s health. There could also be the issue of admitting knowing that a drug could cause a certain disease and more people wanting to sue the company, etc. I think if information about a drug causing diabetes or whatever disease is leaked to the public in whatever way and although it’s going to appear as one of a top internet searches for that drug, it’s going to look better on the company if they talk about it themselves first. I think this is the only way to get people to trust using that drug or drug company again.