Disease Mongering: Good for Big Pharma, Bad for You
By Dr. Andrew Weil Original Post published at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/disease-mongering-good-fo_b_275616.html In “Should You Get Your Drug Information From an Actor?” I discussed the pharmaceutical industry’s egregious practice of using celebrity-driven, prime time television commercials to promote drugs directly to consumers. Illegal in most of the world — and legal in this country only since 1985 — [...]
