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EllieGreen

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Wed Apr-12-06 02:01 PM
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Drug firms 'inventing diseases'

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"Disease-mongering promotes non-existent diseases and exaggerates mild problems to boost profits, the Public Library of Science Medicine reported.

Researchers at Newcastle University in Australia said firms were putting healthy people at risk by medicalising conditions such as menopause.

But the pharmaceutical industry denied it invented diseases.

Report authors David Henry and Ray Moynihan criticised attempts to convince the public in the US that 43% of women live with sexual dysfunction."

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4898488.stm

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