Drug companies 'invent diseases' to protect profits

[Chris]

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.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2128371,00.html

[stoke]

Shock Horror - duh.

Oh look .. I need to use that kind of lipstick and those kinds of stockings .. and the antibacterial dishwashing liquid and the sunblock facecream and the hand cream as opposed to skin cream and ...

Marketing has been doing it for eons already ... you've got to use some of your own briancells ...

[ettubrute]

Agree there stoke! :)

But, don't use Brian's cells, use your own braincells! :p

[stoke]

LOLLIES ... dysleksic fingers ... sigh.

[Dovi]

You mean hand cream isn't different from normal skin cream??? Learn something new everyday..

[stoke]

Every cream is different. Ask any man.