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Drug firms 'inventing diseases'
6/28/2006 4:59:29 PM


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Pharmaceutical firms are inventing diseases to sell more drugs, researchers have warned.

Disease-mongering promotes non-existent diseases and exaggerates mild problems to boost profits, the Public Library of Science Medicine reported.

Restless legs - Prevalence of rare condition greatly exaggerated
Irritable bowel syndrome - Promoted as a serious illness needing therapy, when usually a mild problem needing some dietary changes.
Menopause - Too often medicalized as a disorder when really a normal part of life.

David Henry and Ray Moynihan criticized attempts to convince the public in the US that 43% of women live with sexual dysfunction. They also said that risk factors like high cholesterol and osteoporosis were being presented as diseases - and rare conditions such as restless leg condition and mild problems of irritable bowel syndrome were exaggerated. The report said: "Disease-mongering is the selling of sickness that widens the boundaries of illness and grows the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments. "It is exemplified explicitly by pharmaceutical industry-funded disease awareness campaigns, designed to sell drugs rather than to inform or educate about the prevention of illness or the maintenance of health."

The researchers called on doctors, patients and support groups to be aware of the marketing tactics of the pharmaceutical industry and for more research into the way in which conditions are presented. They added: "The motives of health professionals and health advocacy groups may well be the welfare of patients, rather than any direct self-interested financial benefit, but we believe that too often marketers are able to crudely manipulate those motivations.

Recent news articles and investigative probes have proven this out.


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