Tag: disease mongering
Branding DiseasesâHow Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray...
MIAâs Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Ray Moynihan about the marketing of disorders, broadening of diagnoses, and harmful treatments.
How Drug Companies Sell Treatments By Inventing Diseases
From Yahoo! News: "Thereâs a substantial body of medical literature dating back to the early â90s about the practice known as 'disease mongering.' Pharmaceutical companies...
Malady Mongers: How Drug Companies Sell Treatments By Inventing Diseases
From Huffington Post: The pharmaceutical industryâs image has been significantly damaged in recent years as the public discovered the role its aggressive marketing played...
âFor One Condition, the Drugs Came Before the Disorderâ
An investigative report in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel explores the pharmaceutical industries involvement in the creation of the âmental illnessâ known as Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder...
âIllness Inflationâ
The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel presents an interactive infographic detailing the pharmaceutical industryâs 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 âmental disorderâ 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 âIllness Inflationâ that examines how new medical conditions are often the product of industry...
