Action is needed to stop "disease mongering"

Some forms of medicalising of ordinary life may be better described as "disease mongering." They include turning ordinary ailments into medical problems, seeing mild symptoms as serious, treating personal problems as medical ones, and seeing risks as diseases. Moynihan and colleagues (p 886) believe that more could be done to expose and reduce misleading "wonder drug" stories which help to promote so much disease mongering. They maintain that corporate funded information about disease should be replaced by independent information.

(Credit: CHRIS GROENHOUT)

CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

Relevant Article

Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering • Commentary: Medicalisation of risk factors

Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, David Henry, and Peter C Gøtzsche
BMJ 2002 324: 886-891. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]