Malady mongers: How drug companies sell treatments by inventing diseases, Series P24
- Shidonna Raven
- Feb 24
- 1 min read
June 8, 2018
Source: Yahoo News
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“Almost every woman failed. Only one woman passed. Most of the men failed, but more of them passed. I would say that anyone who passed the test I was actually worried about,” Fugh-Berman said.
PharmedOut’s research focuses on the effectiveness of continuing medical education (CME) funded by the pharmaceutical industry, as well as contrived or exaggerated diseases. She said pharmaceutical companies get doctors on their advisory boards and pay them to educate other influential doctors at CME events. These thought leaders also sign their names to articles — whether written by them or not — so that the company’s views find their way into medical literature. When drugs are approved and diseases are accepted as treatable, medical students are then taught to treat what were once considered benign conditions.
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