Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156025856X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly This accessible study about the collusion between medical science and the drug industry emphasizes how drug companies market their products by either redefining problems as diseases (like female sexual dysfunction) or redefining a condition to encompass a greater percentage of the population. Moynihan, a health journalist for the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet, and Cassels, a Canadian science writer, note, for instance, that eight of the nine specialists who wrote the 2004 federal guideline on high cholesterol, which substantially increased the number of people in that category, have multiple financial ties to drug manufacturers. Unfortunately for these authors, much of this territory has been covered by several books
It had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people so that Merck could "sell to everyone." Gadsden's dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on earth. Selling Sickness reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt health-care systems all over the world. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. As more and more of ordinary life becomes medicalized, the industry moves ever closer to Gadsden's dream: "selling to everyone.". Drug companies are systematically working to widen the very boundaries that define illness, and the
Kenman said Protect yourself against American Pharma: read the book. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, pre-menstrual syndrome, ADD/ADHD, pre-diabetes, depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, hormone replacement and other "diseases" are shown in the book to be "symptoms, not diseases." So how did they get to be diseases and produce billions of dollars in drug sales to treat them? Marketing, misconceptions, mis-information, "buying doctors", outright lies and even conspiracy by pharmaceutical companies throughout the world have led to the unsuspecting public taking billions of pills that don. I've been affected by horrible, life threatening reactions to blood pressure medications Colorado Mountain High Everyone needs to read this, if you go to a doctor. Just today, (6/5/15) a news story broke about Viagra suspected of causing melanoma. (cancer), and stated that the drug company knew it all along. *But, personally, I've been affected by horrible, life threatening reactions to blood pressure medications, and one other Now, I am more and more looking into Holistic Medicine. I don't trust the BIG pharms, and after you read this book, you will be VERY , VERY careful or abstain, if you possibly can. There are holistic treatments. The book warns us about how the medical firms among other invent new sicknesses just for selling more drugs. Gert Bo Thorgersen By reading the book we again see how the Food and Drug Administration, (FDA), is too close connected to the medical firms, from whom yearly half of the money is received, which without doubt results in the fast greenlighting the new drugs, and this mostly done just after only the produces have declared how safe and good and safe their drugs are.And besides with the drugs faster being allowed in USA than in Europe, we at cases with drugs turning out resulting in bad side problems, and even persons dying, it now for FDA have rot