http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/drug_package_ns.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/drug_package_ns.html/comment-page-1#comment-60831 Ken Arromdee Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:20:51 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/01/drug-package-insert-regulations.html#comment-60831 Drug companies want to reduce their liability costs (which may mean giving warnings), but they also want to make the drug look good (which may mean omitting warnings). These are conflicting goals. One way to reconcile these goals is to give warnings but to do so in the least prominent way possible. Entirely leaving warnings out of some types of communication may serve this goal as long as the consumer can be expected to receive the warning somehow. Drug companies want to reduce their liability costs (which may mean giving warnings), but they also want to make the drug look good (which may mean omitting warnings). These are conflicting goals. One way to reconcile these goals is to give warnings but to do so in the least prominent way possible. Entirely leaving warnings out of some types of communication may serve this goal as long as the consumer can be expected to receive the warning somehow.

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