Most drug companies have no empathy with society, they look on it as just a big cash cow. If ethics and humane characteristics came into the equation more (which they do but at probably only around 0.1% of their mindset), the pharmaceuticals would be better placed for this century where full empathy of corporates will become more prevalent to the world populous.
A very interesting web-link to how many of the big drug companies operate and have their roots is,
foolscrow.wordpress.com/.../return-to-nuremberg-big-pharma-must-answer-for-crimes-against-humanity
It about time that the world learnt more about how they undertake their business operations and which is mainly covertly I have personally found (Nature Magazine articles and the Swine Flu pandemic et al).
It makes interesting reading for the public-at-large and where for obvious reasons it has been constantly suppressed over the years by powerful vested interests.
Dr David Hill
World Innovation Foundation