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This accessible study about the collusion between medical science and the

drug industry emphasizes how drug companies market their products by

either redefining problems as diseases (like female sexual dysfunction)

or redefining a condition to encompass a greater percentage of the

population. Moynihan, a health journalist for the New England Journal of

Medicine and the Lancet, and Cassels, a Canadian science writer, note,

for instance, that eight of the nine specialists who wrote the 2004

federal guideline on high cholesterol, which substantially increased the

number of people in that category, have multiple financial ties to drug

manufacturers. Physicians now routinely prescribe cholesterol-lowering

pills (statins) that may have perilous side effects, when many people

could lower their risk of heart attack with less costly and dangerous

steps, such as exercise and improved diet. Through aggressive

merchandising, funding of medical conferences and expensive perks, drug

companies win doctors over to diagnosing these " diseases " and

prescribing drugs for them.

Science and medicine writers Moynihan and Cassels conjecture that most

Americans believe, based on information gleaned from a deluge of

pharmaceutical-company advertisements, that conditions such as

hypertension, high cholesterol, menopause, and chronic constipation are

bona fide diseases. They quote reputable medical experts, however, who

refute such understandings. What's more, they suggest that billions of

precious and diminishing health-care dollars are squandered treating

those nondiseases of healthy, wealthy Americans and would be better spent

treating the legitimately sick poor and fighting the international AIDS

epidemic. Quoting former Merck CEO Henry Gadsen--who, in a 1976 Fortune

article, confessed that " it had long been his dream to make drugs

for healthy people. Because then, Merck would be able to 'sell to

everyone' " --they lay the blame for the misdirected billions at the

feet of just such pharmaceutical giants as Merck. Finally, they

counterpoint glossy pharmaceutical ad campaigns with alternatives that

consumers may consider before asking their doctors for prescription drugs

they saw touted on TV. Donna Chavez

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