There's a healing for whatever ails...

There's a healing for whatever ails you, calm if it's not a disease. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports that a person of its physician-readers identified almost 200 conditions that aren't real diseases--ranging from baldness to jet lag--but which have commercially available "cures" The report, published March 13 2002 prompts that some drug companies are "disease-mongering" by means of widening the boundaries of treatable diseases in order boost their markets.

BMJ editor Richard Smith says it's easy to create just discovered diseases out of many ordinary life processe as it was as aging and sexuality. "Global pharmaceutical companies have a clear interest in medicalizing life's point in disputes and there's now an ill for each pill," he writes.

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