Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering * Commentary: Medicalisation of risk factors
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- 13 April 2002
- Vol. 324 (7342) , 886-891
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.324.7342.886
Abstract
A lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are sick. Pharmaceutical companies sponsor diseases and promote them to prescribers and consumers. Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, and David Henry give examples of "disease mongering" and suggest how to prevent the growth of this practicKeywords
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