Disease-Mongering

You gotta love those pharmas. If it isn't irritable bowel syndrome, or 'restless legs' it's some old annoyance become today's new pill-cure disease. How about a drug for kids who are afraid to play baseball?

BBC News has got a good article on disease-mongering in the drug industry. Australian research scientists (Newcastle University) slam the industry for trying to push drugs as a solution for everthing short of bliss.

"Disease-mongering is the selling of sickness that widens the boundaries of illness and grows the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments."

Industry-backed public awareness campaigns are used to sell drugs instead of educate the public. Somehow I don't think 43% of women suffer from sexual dysfunction - at least not the ones I know.