Fwd: RFW:JANUARY 4, 2003:CREATING DISEASES FOR PROFIT

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:SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2003

A RFW SPECIAL EDITION

http://www.redflagsweekly.com

 

CREATING NEW MEDICAL DISORDERS FOR PROFIT

 

*THE CORPORATE-SPONSORED CREATION OF DISEASE

There is not much in medicine that is as shoddy as

the alliance formed between doctors and the drug

industry to construct new disorders. This even comes

at a time when medicine is being portrayed as corrupt

in the mainstream medical journals....

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/editor/2003_jan04.html

 

*THE MAKING OF A DISEASE: FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION

A cohort of researchers with close ties to drug companies

are working with colleagues in the pharmaceutical

industry to develop and define a new category of human

illness at meetings heavily sponsored by companies racing

to develop new drugs....

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/special_edition.html

 

*FIRST, YOU MARKET THE DISEASE...THEN YOU PUSH THE PILLS

TO TREAT IT

The ugly truth about doctors, PR firms, and drug companies:

Prominent doctors are enlisted to publicly affirm the malady's

ubiquity, then public-relations firms launch campaigns to

promote the new disease, using dramatic statistics from

corporate-sponsored studies....

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/special_edition.html

 

*THE LATEST DRUG COMPANY TACTIC: DISEASE AWARENESS

Are you noticing more stories in the media trying to get

you to see your doctor about a treatment for " social

anxiety disorder? " The symptoms seem pretty familiar

- sweaty palms, nervousness in a crowd....

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/special_edition.html

 

*THE RISE AND FALL OF ADD/ADHD

In 1980, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) was invented

in committee, for DSM-III. In 1987, ADD was revised,

becoming ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder....

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/special_edition.html

 

*FLASHBACK: PRESCRIPTION DRUG BS AWARD FOR 2001

Eli Lilly's aggressive come-on for " Sarafem " is shameless?

Even psychiatrists, who are quick to call any part of the body

that moves a disease are being cautious about this outrageous

marketing ploy....

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/regushsarafem.html

 

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