On 2/8/2013 3:02 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> That reminds me of reading about the discovery of the disease of the week a
> few years ago, "restless leg syndrome." Apparently this was a not too
> uncommon thing that visited a few only occasionally with the mildest of
> tremors, so begin in fact that it had no name or medical status. During the
> testing of a drug for something else, it was discovered that a medication
> being tested for something else was a "Miracle Cure." The drug company got
> together with some doctors and invented the syndrome, hired an ad agency,
> and it was off to the races.
>
> The best example for that, although it has helped many, is viagra. Was
> originally to be a HBP med.
An even bigger, and much more pernicious, example is Clinical Depression. Read
Manufacturing Depression, by Gary
Greenberg, if you want to be thoroughly scared by Big Pharma.
No Pills Please Moose
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