Malady mongers: How drug companies sell treatments by inventing diseases, Series P19
- Shidonna Raven
- Feb 11
- 1 min read
June 8, 2018
Source: Yahoo News
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In the end, Fugh-Berman said, there’s no authority that protects against questionable disease categories in any meaningful way.
Schwartz and Woloshin work to improve communication between doctors and the public by helping both see through the disproportionate fears and hopes created by medical advertising and selective reporting. They note that health conditions occupy a spectrum from clearly sick to clearly well, but there’s a large gray area in-between. When does a mildly bothersome experience become the symptom of a disease? In many cases, they said, the pharmaceutical industry draws these lines aggressively so the boundaries of normal get smaller and smaller. And they do so unilaterally — no regulators are watching.
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