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Pharmaceutical companies are systematically creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm, a special edition of a leading medical journal claims today.

The practice of “diseasemongering” by the drug industry is promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor ones for the sake of profits, according to a set of essays published by the open-access journal Public Library of Science Medicine.

The special issue, edited by David Henry, of Newcastle University in Australia, and Ray Moynihan, an Australian journalist, reports that conditions such as female sexual dysfunction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and “restless legs syndrome” have been promoted by companies hoping to sell more of their drugs.

Other minor problems that are a normal part of life, such as symptoms of the menopause, are also becoming increasingly “medicalised”, while risk factors such as high cholesterol levels or osteoporosis are being presented as diseases in their own right, according to the editors.

“Disease-mongering turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources and causes iatrogenic (medically induced) harm,” they say. “Like the marketing strategies that drive it, disease-mongering poses a global challenge to those interested in public health, demanding in turn a global response.”

Doctors, patients and support groups need to be more aware that pharmaceutical companies are taking this approach, and more research is needed into the changing ways in which conditions are presented, according to the writers.

Disease-awareness campaigns are often funded by drug companies, and “more often designed to sell drugs than to illuminate or inform or educate about the prevention of illness or the maintenance of health”, they say.

Particular conditions that are highlighted in the journal include sexual function in both men and women. The prevalence of female sexual dysfunction, one paper claims, has been highly exaggerated to provide a new market for drugs, while the makers of anti-impotence medicines, such as Viagra and Cialis, have been involved with their presentation as lifestyle drugs that can boost the sexual prowess of healthy men.

Ordinary shyness is routinely presented as a social anxiety disorder and treated with antidepressants, while newly identified conditions such as “restless legs syndrome” — a constant urge to move one’s legs — are presented as being much more common than they really are.
 
  walkin on 2006-04-14
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Desire to move the legs constantly is a prominent symptom of Zinc. Met. ...in homeopathy....linked to hyper activity of the brain.

Administer or suggest only after studying and matching other symptoms with "drug picture"

Person is likely to have some skin eruptions too.

Best
Pankaj Varma
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
Most medicines and antibiotics work for couple of years and then bacteria becomes resistant. So companies are consistantly on the way to devise further new antibiotics. This keeps them making money forever. Actually these antibiotics has made bacterias and virus more powerful than ever.

Even antidepressents work for about one year then either dose needs to be raised further or next medicine is prescribed.

So Pharmacutical companies are always in the run to make and sell next medicine. Each Patient is an emerging and growing market.
 
kuldeep last decade
Thanks for the post.

I hope that it becomes common knowledge that pharmaceutals do not cure but only suppress or maintain a desease under control.

I have heard this fact with regards to syphlis on television commercials.

I have also heard and read that antibiotics have lost their ability to affect humans and that the pharmaceuticals are at work coming up with new ones due to this reason.

I have also heard that the government sprays us down with stuff to make us sick.

A good example is last year when we had a shortage of flu vaccines. There also was no epidimic of flu. Wonder why? Possibly because we were not sprayed down to make us sick.

Recently, I have heard of spraying that was done to kill mosquitos to control lyme disease after one or two people die. Sounds to fishy to me.

Enjoy reading your very education posts. Thanks you.
 
Pat2006 last decade
I have also heard that the pharmaceutal companies come up with different names for the same desease.

Good example might be fibromyalgia and lyme desease. Someone at this site recently brought it to my attention that both deseases have the same symptoms. Thank God homeopathy doesn't care about the name of a desease.
 
Pat2006 last decade

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