Ernest Acheamoung Daniel Kosinski Krithika Rarichandron Ravee Padte Wing Yan (Joyce) Cheung
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I'm not sure if you guys would be interested in this. Just thought I would put it up here just in case. We could do something about the "disease mongering" that is present in the pharmaceutical industry. Disease mongering can include turning ordinary ailments into medical problems, seeing mild symptoms as serious, treating personal problems as medical, seeing risks as diseases, and framing prevalence estimates to maximise potential markets
I liked the second thing you posted...I remember you mentioning it to me and telling me about the case of the girl. I think this is a really good issue to focus around, it brings up a lot of "what if's", especially since patients who are dying and could possibly benefit from medicine are just left there to die basically. It's basically like waving hope in front of someone's face but then taking it away from them.
I think I've heard of disease mongering before but haven't read anything on it. I will look up articles and post some shortly. For now though I like the second topic you had suggested.
Ok so on the topic of disease mongering, for a while I had been skeptical about so many kids being diagnosed with ADHD, and I realized that falls into this category. It of course isn't a disease, but it applies because it seems like everyone thinks that when a kid can't sit still for 5 minutes, they need to be put on Aderall or something to "fix" them. It actually makes you think twice about all of of those ads you see on tv for everything. I feel like companies are basically advertising happiness with a lot of antidepressants, such as Zoloft. Many of the symptoms they mention in the commercials for such medical problems are everyday feelings that people sometimes have, so it makes us all think we need medication to feel normal, when in fact we all know normal is actually a huge spectrum of things.
Here are some links:
http://www.fakediseases.com/
http://www.psychiatryscam.com/ (this one is good, brings up the "Road Rage Disorder", which I think is completely ridiculous)
Hey, guys . . . sorry for being MIA for the past, um, month . . . this weekend, I'll catch up with reading your posts and look into this "disease mongering" stuff . . . and I'll try to get Joyce and Ernest on here, as well. Thanks for the wake-up call, Krith!
Sorry I haven't posted the list from last class yet! After Monday's Systems Phys and Physiological Psych exams, I'll get on top of it. Thanks for understanding.
-pharmaceutical companies -enlarge market -convince healthy people that they are sick (ex. high cholesterol = "disease"; restless legs syndrome)
-direct-to-consumer marketing --> Professor Fagan -statistics -position paper to AMA -IRB/IEC Quorum -window for a drug's side-effects to appear before being advertised or put on the market -prevent advertisements that are misleading (impinging on freedom of speech?) -government educating citizens about these misleading diseases and drugs
After reading up on medicalisation I found some information regarding steps to combat disease mongering. Here are my random thoughts (some of it is copied off the internet How to combat Disease-mongering
-The public should dismiss the use of prescribed drugs without adequate testing -find meat that is grass-fed and non-hormonized, purchase baked goods that do not have hydrogenated fats, refrain from using most artificial sweeteners which never underwent adequate safety testing and which actually cause animals to become obese, all health measures which should have been handled at the public health level -the public should retrieve their information from third party news sources, rather then corporate-sponsored advertising -Move away from using corporate funded information on medical conditions/ diseases -Generate independent accessible materials on conditions and diseases -Widen notions of informed consent to include information about controversy surrounding the definitions of conditions and diseases -deep academic investigation that employs qualitative and quantitative research techniques -we only have the information of journalists -researchers start to develop strategies for generating data on the impact of disease mongering -Researchers should take a group of the most common (high-burden) diseases/conditions, and investigate how and why the definitions of those diseases/conditions have changed over time in different nations
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I'm not sure if you guys would be interested in this. Just thought I would put it up here just in case. We could do something about the "disease mongering" that is present in the pharmaceutical industry. Disease mongering can include turning ordinary ailments into medical problems, seeing mild symptoms as serious, treating personal problems as medical, seeing risks as diseases, and framing prevalence estimates to maximise potential markets
Also, check this out:
http://www.abigail-alliance.org/LEMSEP07pAbigailLR.pdf
I liked the second thing you posted...I remember you mentioning it to me and telling me about the case of the girl. I think this is a really good issue to focus around, it brings up a lot of "what if's", especially since patients who are dying and could possibly benefit from medicine are just left there to die basically. It's basically like waving hope in front of someone's face but then taking it away from them.
I think I've heard of disease mongering before but haven't read anything on it. I will look up articles and post some shortly. For now though I like the second topic you had suggested.
Ok so on the topic of disease mongering, for a while I had been skeptical about so many kids being diagnosed with ADHD, and I realized that falls into this category. It of course isn't a disease, but it applies because it seems like everyone thinks that when a kid can't sit still for 5 minutes, they need to be put on Aderall or something to "fix" them. It actually makes you think twice about all of of those ads you see on tv for everything. I feel like companies are basically advertising happiness with a lot of antidepressants, such as Zoloft. Many of the symptoms they mention in the commercials for such medical problems are everyday feelings that people sometimes have, so it makes us all think we need medication to feel normal, when in fact we all know normal is actually a huge spectrum of things.
Here are some links:
http://www.fakediseases.com/
http://www.psychiatryscam.com/
(this one is good, brings up the "Road Rage Disorder", which I think is completely ridiculous)
Hey, guys . . . sorry for being MIA for the past, um, month . . . this weekend, I'll catch up with reading your posts and look into this "disease mongering" stuff . . . and I'll try to get Joyce and Ernest on here, as well. Thanks for the wake-up call, Krith!
Sorry I haven't posted the list from last class yet! After Monday's Systems Phys and Physiological Psych exams, I'll get on top of it. Thanks for understanding.
DISEASE MONGERING
-pharmaceutical companies
-enlarge market
-convince healthy people that they are sick
(ex. high cholesterol = "disease"; restless legs syndrome)
-direct-to-consumer marketing --> Professor Fagan
-statistics
-position paper to AMA
-IRB/IEC Quorum
-window for a drug's side-effects to appear before being advertised or put on the market
-prevent advertisements that are misleading (impinging on freedom of speech?)
-government educating citizens about these misleading diseases and drugs
After reading up on medicalisation I found some information regarding steps to combat disease mongering. Here are my random thoughts (some of it is copied off the internet
How to combat Disease-mongering
-The public should dismiss the use of prescribed drugs without adequate testing
-find meat that is grass-fed and non-hormonized, purchase baked goods that do not have hydrogenated fats, refrain from using most artificial sweeteners which never underwent adequate safety testing and which actually cause animals to become obese, all health measures which should have been handled at the public health level
-the public should retrieve their information from third party news sources, rather then corporate-sponsored advertising
-Move away from using corporate funded information on medical conditions/ diseases
-Generate independent accessible materials on conditions and diseases
-Widen notions of informed consent to include information about controversy surrounding the definitions of conditions and diseases
-deep academic investigation that employs qualitative and quantitative research techniques
-we only have the information of journalists
-researchers start to develop strategies for generating data on the impact of disease mongering
-Researchers should take a group of the most common (high-burden) diseases/conditions, and investigate how and why the definitions of those diseases/conditions have changed over time in different nations
ok..im just trying to see if this works...
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