Tag: disease mongering
How Drug Companies Sell Treatments By Inventing Diseases
FromĀ Yahoo! News: "Thereās a substantial body of medical literature dating back to the early ā90s about the practice known as 'disease mongering.' Pharmaceutical companies...
Malady Mongers: How Drug Companies Sell Treatments By Inventing Diseases
From Huffington Post: The pharmaceutical industryās image has been significantly damaged in recent years as the public discovered the role its aggressive marketing played...
āFor One Condition, the Drugs Came Before the Disorderā
An investigative report in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel explores the pharmaceutical industries involvement in theĀ creation of the āmental illnessā known as Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder...
āIllness Inflationā
The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel presents an interactive infographic detailing the pharmaceutical industryās involvement in the promotion of several psychiatric disorders, including adult ADHD, binge-eating...
How ‘Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder’ was Created by Pharma
For MinnPost, Susan Perry discusses that the pharmaceutical industry played in the creation of the āmental disorderā known as premenstrual dysphoric disorder or PMDD....
Illness Inflation: Expanded Medical Definitions Create More Patients
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has issued a watchdog report titled āIllness Inflationā that examines how new medical conditions are often the product of industry...