Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

Mild problems are redefined as serious illness and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD. Drug companies are systematically working to widen the very boundaries that

All rights reserved. . From Publishers Weekly 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. 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 a

Protect yourself against American Pharma: read the book High blood pressure, high cholesterol, pre-menstrual syndrome, ADD/ADHD, pre-diabetes, depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, hormone replacement and other "diseases" are shown in the book to be "symptoms, not diseases." So how did they get to be diseases and produce billions of dollars in drug sales to treat them? Mar. Colorado Mountain High said I've been affected by horrible, life threatening reactions to blood pressure medications. Everyone needs to read this, if you go to a doctor. Just today, (6/5/15) a news story broke about Viagra suspected of causing melanoma. (cancer), and stated that the drug company knew it all along. *But, personally, I've been affected by horrible, life threatening reactions to blood pressure medications, and one other . Gert Bo Thorgersen said The book warns us about how the medical firms among other invent new sicknesses just for selling more drugs.. By reading the book we again see how the Food and Drug Administration, (FDA), is too close connected to the medical firms, from whom yearly half of the money is received, which without doubt results in the fast greenlighting the new drugs, and this mostly done just after only the produces have declared how safe and good