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An ill for every pillAnne Harding Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients2005Ray Moynihan and Alan CasselsThere's something very wrong here, I thought, my feverish 2-year-old in my lap, as we sat in a paediatrician's dingy waiting room one afternoon. Not a single intact children's book to take my son's mind off his misery, but plenty of

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Book reviewsSelling Sickness. By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2005. ISBN 1553651316. Hardcover, 272 pages. $32.95.This book is a must-read if you or your patients are concerned about the way the prescription drug business works. If you have wondered why the cost of medications in our system has gone from half to more than the cost of physician services over a decade,

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------When sickness is profitable, there's a problem by Penny Draper--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels; Greystone Books, 241 pages, $32.95 Feeling

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Women rely more on antidepressants, report findsPrescriptions up 73 per cent in 4 years. Researcher blames increasedmarketing of new drugs for emotional disordersCHARLIE FIDELMANThe GazetteTuesday, November 22, 2005A majority of Canadian women seeking medical help for emotional problemsare leaving their doctor's office with a prescription for an antidepressant, a new study shows."Women are

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Shelley PageA new book argues that drug companies are redefining what it means to be 'healthy,' turning us all into patients and pilltakersThe big guns of cardiology met this week at the American Heart Association and discussed the future of statins, cholesterol- lowering drugs that are the bestselling pills on the planet. Studies released there suggest that while statins have worked well in

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THE NATIONA Disease for Every Pill by RAY MOYNIHAN & ALAN CASSELS [from the October 17, 2005 issue] An anonymous woman tries to disentangle a shopping cart from an interlocked row of them, outside a suburban store. She is frustrated and angry. She becomes even more exasperated when another shopper enters the frame, calmly unhooks a cart and glides smoothly on her way. Watching this TV

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'Selling Sickness' is worth reading Thursday, September 29, 2005By Nancy Norkiewicz/Get the Beat, The Starhttp://www.starnewspapers.com/star/spsports/smix/292sx4.htmOK, so I admit it. I'm one of those people who doesn't even consider taking an aspirin until my head feels like it's about to explode. So when I sat down to watch a movie the other night on television I was totally blown away by the

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Pharmaceutical industry working to expand definition of illness to maximize profit, controversial author tells VoicePrintSept. 27, 2005 (Toronto, ON) The pharmaceutical industry is working to expand the boundaries of illness to maximize profit margins, claims the co-author of a new book, Selling Sickness, is the guest on Contact this Sunday on VoicePrint Canada at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific.“

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Books: Selling SicknessAlan CasselsAuthorWednesday, September 21, 2005; 12:00 PMIn the new book, "Selling Sickness: Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients," authors Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels explore the aggressive marketing campaigns used by large drug companies and how more and more healthy people are turning into patients. Cassels, a pharmaceutical policy researcher at

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For Immediate Release09/19/05"Disease mongering" by pharmaceutical companies threatens to bankrupt Canada's public health systemAuthors of new book warn that drug company marketing techniques are turning us all into patients Daily media articles say that the Canadian public health system is injeopardy, and fingers are pointed at everything from doctor shortages togovernment mismanagement and

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By Kelly Hearn, AlterNetPosted on September 14, 2005, Printed on September 14, 2005http://www.alternet.org/story/25418/Last month, the state of California sued 39 drug companies for price gouging. A week earlier, a jury hit Merck & Co. with a $253 million verdict over its painkiller Vioxx, which was linked to patient deaths.Each story of buried evidence, bogus research, physician kickbacks and

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BOOK Review JAMA, September 7, 2005—Vol 294, No. 9 Selling Sickness: How the World’s Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All IntoPatients, by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, 241pp, $26, ISBN 1-56025-697-4, New York, NY, Nation Books, 2005. Selling Sickness, directed by Catherine Scott, produced by Pat Fiske, cowritten by Ray Moynihan, videocassette, 52 min, color, $390, rental $75, New York,

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Corporate power threatening our healthSelling Sickness: How Drug Companies are Turning Us All into PatientsBy Ray Moynihan & Alan CasselsAllen & Unwin, 2005254 pages, $26.95 (pb)REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNONThirty years ago, the retiring head of the Merck pharmaceutical company told Fortune magazine that he was distressed that the market for his company’s drugs was limited to only sick people. If he

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SELLING SICKNESS: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies AreTurning Us All Into Patients. By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels. (NationBooks, $25.) Is menopause a disease? Maybe not, but drug companies encouraged people to think so in order to sell hormone replacement therapy, until the news broke that the hormones increased the risk of heart attacks, strokes and breast cancer. Moynihan and

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By Judy GerstelChances are, if you're an adult Canadian, that you're taking a prescription drug.It could be a statin to lower bad cholesterol, an antidepressant to raise spirits, a calcium channel blocker to lower blood pressure, an erectile dysfunction drug to raise, er, ...Last year, the cost of prescription drugs in Canada surpassed $18 billion.That's a prodigious pile of pills.It's also more

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On the Bookshelf: A profit motive to find illnessesUS News and World ReportAugust 23, 2005Katherine HobsonMore and more people are being identified as sick, even though many feel perfectly fine. The pace of this medicalization has picked up, according to Alan Cassels, a Canadian pharmaceutical policy researcher. His and medical author Ray Moynihan ' s new book, Selling Sickness: How the World's

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Big pharma: It's enough to make you sickBy ABBY LIPPMANSaturday, August 6, 2005 Page D8Selling Sickness:How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical CompaniesAre Turning Us All Into PatientsBy Ray Moynihan and Alan CasselsGreyStone, 254 pages,$32.95The pharmaceutical industry is global. It's also powerful and rich. And lately, it's all over the news. Notices of different drugs pulled off the market (

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A new book looks at how pharmaceutical companies are using aggressive marketing campaigns to turn more people into patients.By Jennifer BarrettNewsweekAug. 2, 2005 - There are few Americans these days who aren’t popping pills to treat a complaint, or to prevent one. From headache medicine to cholesterol-lowering drugs to sexual-dysfunction aids, there seems to be a remedy for every disorder out

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Selling SicknessHow the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into PatientsBy Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels Nation Books. 254 pp. $25 Reviewed by Sherry Jacobson Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, coauthors of Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients, make a strong case against the pill-popping habits of many

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One Nation, OvermedicatedHave we handed drug companies the power to define diseases? It's time to take back our health.IN A PROVOCATIVE NEW BOOK, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients, our nation's growing reliance on "lifestyle" medications is put in the spotlight. Ray Moynihan, an award-winning medical writer, and Alan Cassels, a

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Authors take us to task for our pill-popping ways05:58 PM CDT on Monday, July 25, 2005By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning NewsIf Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels are right, Americans are in a lot of trouble, medically speaking.The co-authors of a new book, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients, make a strong case against the

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July 30-August 5 2005 Vol 199 No 3403Sickness sellingby Noel O'HareWe've never been more health-conscious, yet drug companies are finding new illnesses" to ensure a growing market for their products, say two health researchers.Health spending is up 40% over the past five years, yet hospital waiting lists are so long that there are waiting lists to get on the waiting lists. If politicians were

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License to Ill. Increasingly, drug companies aren't just selling cures. They're also marketing disease.Bradford Plumer July 25 , 2005One of the biggest concerns in the United States today is that health care costs keep accelerating upwards, growing faster than inflation, faster than our paychecks. But no one seems to be able to agree on why, exactly, costs are climbing so rapidly. About a

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The Drug Industry Gets a Dose of The Blueshttp://www.prwatch.org/node/3726Submitted by Bob Burton on Wed, 06/08/2005 - 01:10.Topics: public relations marketing healthIn the heart of Sydney's Ryde Valley - Australia's drug industry alley - fifty marketing managers and PR advisers from major drug companies, including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline, pondered the

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Moynihan, Ray and Cassels, Alan. Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients. July 2005. 272p. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, $26 (1-56025-697-4).>i 5. Science and medicine writers Moynihan and Cassels conjecture that most Americans believe, based on information gleaned from a deluge of pharmaceutical-company advertisements, that

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Drug companies 'talk up' ailmentsSid Maher30may05AUSTRALIA'S health system is wasting up to $100 million a year prescribing expensive, patented blood-pressure drugs instead of older, cheaper medicines found to be just as effective by scientific studies.The claim is contained in a new book, Selling Sickness, which accuses pharmaceutical companies of talking up the effects of common complaints to

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Marketing a Disease, and Also a Drug to Treat ItBy ANDREW POLLACKIs it a drug in search of a disease, or simply an affliction in need of better publicity?One of the afflicted is Peter Pagan. After suffering a severe brain injury in a fall, he would burst into tears at the slightest provocation, even when he was not feeling sad."The physical therapist would say, 'You're doing well' and he would

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Book Review: 'Selling Sickness'by Robyn Williams03 May 2005Printed from Adelaide IMC : http://www.adelaide.indymedia.org.au/In a market driven economy, is the pharmaceutical industry hyping disease to improve their bottom line? Are we as sick as the industry would like us to believe?I'm no economist but even I know we live in a market economy. Ever wondered where the market comes from? It's a big

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Saturdays at 12.10pm, repeated Mondays at 7.10pmwith Robyn WilliamsPrintBook Review: 'Selling Sickness'Saturday 30 April 2005 Summary In a market driven economy, is the pharmaceutical industry hyping disease to improve their bottom line? Are we as sick as the industry would like us to believe?Program TranscriptI’m no economist but even I know we live in a market economy. Ever wondered where the

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