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"Industry calls it disease awareness, those of us who are public health advocates call it disease-mongering -- making people believe that they are sick when they are normal."
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I believe that part of the "depression epidemic" is false -- a creation of aggressive disease-mongering by pharmaceutical companies to promote antidepressant sales.
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Payer identified several disease-mongering tactics.
Dr. Larry Dossey: Creating Disease: Big Pharma and Disease Mongering 2010
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Payer identified several disease-mongering tactics.
Dr. Larry Dossey: Creating Disease: Big Pharma and Disease Mongering 2010
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A central disease-mongering tactic is to attach polysyllabic, clinical-sounding names to what used to be seen as trivial or transient conditions.
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A central disease-mongering tactic is to attach polysyllabic, clinical-sounding names to what used to be seen as trivial or transient conditions.
Dr. Andrew Weil: Disease Mongering: Good For Big Pharma, Bad For You 2010
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A central disease-mongering tactic is to attach polysyllabic, clinical-sounding names to what used to be seen as trivial or transient conditions.
Dr. Andrew Weil: Disease Mongering: Good For Big Pharma, Bad For You Dr. Andrew Weil 2010
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Lane uses shyness as his case study of disease-mongering in psychiatry.
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption Angell, Marcia 2009
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But the phenomenon generally isn't thought to signal a serious medical condition, and some experts view the campaigns as little more than disease-mongering.
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But the phenomenon generally isn't thought to signal a serious medical condition, and some experts view the campaigns as little more than disease-mongering.
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