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		<title>The Healthy Skeptic</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/12/31/the-healthy-skeptic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it’s the opening anecdote that draws you into a book. In the introduction of The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the HYPE about your Health, author Robert J. Davis describes a youthful encounter that jump-started his own quest for truth. It was the early years of the low-fat-diet-for-all heart disease prevention message to the public.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1195&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Daily Meds: A book review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we knew that the pharmaceutical industry has been creating new diseases for at least four decades (recall how menopause became a hormone-deficiency disease curable by taking estrogen for the rest of your life).  But the author of Our Daily Meds,  a new book by journalist Melody Petersen, shows that one drug company, Pharmacia, was not shy about acknowledging it publicly.  
Overactive bladder was created by Pharmacia in the mid-1990s in order to sell its new drug Detrol. (See TV ads with this obnoxious voice-over: “Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now.”)  Petersen, then a business reporter for The New York Times, describes how she covered the 2003 Pharmaceutical Marketing Global Summit in Philadelphia, where Neil Wolfe, Pharmacia’s vice president, outlined the steps taken to make Detrol into the $3 billion a-year-product it is today. The first slide of his presentation: “Positioning Detrol (Creating a Disease).”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2261&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overtreated—Why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/03/01/overtreated%e2%80%94why-too-much-medicine-is-making-us-sicker-and-poorer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a nutshell, overtreatment is unnecessary treatment. It’s treatment that has no positive impact on health or longevity, and in many cases, causes harm. It’s the coronary-artery opening procedures given yearly to more than one million Americans for whom drug therapy has been proven to be the better choice. It’s the long-term drug regimens recommended to people at low-risk for hip fracture, heart attack or stroke. It’s the PSA blood test for finding prostate cancer at its earliest stage, despite the fact that studies have yet to prove immediate treatment is better than no treatment at all. Just to name a few.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=222&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Taubes Challenges Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/01/01/gary-taubes-challenges-conventional-wisdom-on-diet-weight-control-and-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your doctor has ever told you to go on a low-fat diet, read this book. For 50 years the public has been told that dietary fat and excess calories are the cause of obesity, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. Journalist Gary Taubes, a correspondent for Science magazine, has spent years tracking down the scientific underpinnings for both assertions and found little to support them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=219&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Sickness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are being manipulated by the pharmaceutical industry. The we in this case includes the general public, doctors, researchers, consumer advocacy groups, federal health officials, and politicians. The pharmaceutical industry exerts its influence over virtually all aspects of the medical care system. It sets a lion’s share of the research agenda; has a strong say in the ever-changing definitions of normal; controls most of the average doctor’s postgraduate pharmacological education; and is changing the way we think about illness in order to sell more drugs. Just to name a few.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=217&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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