Pharma Companies Creating Diseases To Sell Their Medicines

Washington, A new study has revealed that pharmaceutical companies are creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm. The practice of "diseasemongering" by the drug industry is promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor ones for the sake of profits, according to a set of essays published by the open-access journal Public Library of Science Medicine. The special issue, edited by David Henry, of Newcastle University in Australia, and Ray Moynihan, an Australian journalist, reports that conditions such as female sexual dysfunction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and "restless legs syndrome" have been promoted by companies hoping to sell more of their drugs.