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.

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