Pharma Diseasemongers: Report
Pharmaceutical companies are selling their treatments through disease-mongering tactics that frame ordinary physiology in terms of disease, according to a series of papers published Tuesday in a leading medical journal.More here.
The 11 publications in PLoS Medicine claimed the industry portrays mild problems as serious diseases, promotes risk factors as diseases, and makes medical problems out of ordinary life events such as menopause.
posted by Fergie @ 4/11/2006 03:39:00 PM
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