Drug Companies Invent Diseases For Increased Profits

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Drugs Companies Inventing Diseases To Boost Their ProfitsLondon Times 11th Of April 2006 By Mark Hendersonhttp://www.infowars.com/articles/science/pharma_companies_invent_disease_boost_profits.htmhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2128371,00.htmlPHARMACEUTICAL companies are systematically creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm, a special edition of a leading medical journal claims today. 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.Other minor problems that are a normal part of life, such as symptoms of the menopause, are also becoming increasingly “medicalised”, while risk factors such as high cholesterol levels or osteoporosis are being presented as diseases in their own right, according to the editors.“Disease-mongering turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources and causes iatrogenic (medically induced) harm,” they say. “Like the marketing strategies that drive it, disease-mongering poses a global challenge to those interested in public health, demanding in turn a global response.”Doctors, patients and support groups need to be more aware that pharmaceutical companies are taking this approach, and more research is needed into the changing ways in which conditions are presented, according to the writers.Disease-awareness campaigns are often funded by drug companies, and “more often designed to sell drugs than to illuminate or inform or educate about the prevention of illness or the maintenance of health”, they say.Particular conditions that are highlighted in the journal include sexual function in both men and women. The prevalence of female sexual dysfunction, one paper claims, has been highly exaggerated to provide a new market for drugs, while the makers of anti-impotence medicines, such as Viagra and Cialis, have been involved with their presentation as lifestyle drugs that can boost the sexual prowess of healthy men.Ordinary shyness is routinely presented as a social anxiety disorder and treated with antidepressants, while newly identified conditions such as “Restless Legs Syndrome” a constant urge to move one’s legs — are presented as being much more common than they really are.Richard Ley, of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, rejected the accusations, pointing out that Britain has firm safeguards against disease-mongering. Many of the authors’ criticisms, he said, were aimed squarely at countries such as the United States, where pharmaceuticals can be openly advertised directly to patients.“Drug companies are not allowed to communicate directly with patients, and we do not invent diseases,” he said.“We provide information that there are treatments out there that might help certain conditions, but at the end of the day it is down to health professionals to decide if they are appropriate.“The best safeguard is that the doctor who knows the product and knows the patient’s history is the one who decides what to prescribe.”TRICK OR TREAT?MENOPAUSESymptoms include hot flushes, night sweats and loss of libidoCriticism too often “medicalised” as part of a “disorder” when it is a normal phase of lifeIRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROMESymptoms include constipation, cramps and diarrhoeaCriticism promoted by drug companies as a serious illness needing therapy, when it is usually a mild problemSEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONSymptoms impotence in men, lack of libido or difficulty becoming aroused in womenCriticism drugs such as Viagra marketed not only for treating genuine erectile dysfunction caused by medical problems but as lifestyle improversOSTEOPOROSISSymptoms thinning of the bones, particularly among postmenopausal womenCriticism portrayed as a disease in its own right, when it is really a risk factor for broken bonesRESTLESS LEGSSymptoms urge to move legs because of unpleasant feelings, often at nightCriticism prevalence of a relatively rare condition exaggerated by the media, along with the need for treatment  

[DreamTime]

I wouldn't doubt this at all. I've been saying it for years. :smirk:

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High Degree Freemasonry is tell the General Public what they are doing here but still the Human 'Herd' in their eyes, do not wake up to see the truth.

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It's sad, isn't it? I try to tell my two sisters how the drugs they are taking is only making them sicker, but they just won't listen. Then whenever they hear anything on the news about a new 'flu' or whatever, suddenly they either have or are getting the symptoms.  I guess there's just no helping the vast majority of the population.

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I know what you what mean Dream Time.It is like the whole Benny Hinn thing where he tells you he only used hypnosis to pretend to heal and yet the Sheeple believe he is a Messiah and donate millions. Most Human Beings want to remain asleep as it is easier to deal with the Noble Lie of High Freemasonry.For years, the Illumined Ones have told us they will depopulate, to create Predictive Programming and for me, i do see mass depopulation occurring but most of the NWO will collapse in the next few years.Most Human Beings do not give stuff about their health and so the Human Body will reflect that.

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I agree with you, Avatar, on most people wanting to remain asleep. It just seems easier for them, I guess. Sometimes I wish that I didn't know everything that I do.  There are so many things that are so unbelievable and/or so confusing that it's hard to even think of them.

And I really hope you are right about the NWO not coming to fruition. But you know...now that I heard that they are going back to the moon because they found 'ice' or 'water,' it makes me think that they are going to throw some of the people up there. Maybe as a first step to somewhere farther away?

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The NASA Moon story is a lie for the General Public to buy. The Illumined Ones have big problems with the Moon because of the Reptilians and Greys stationed there and because of the Second Moon.It is a covert NASA mission to find out exactly what is going on. More than likely, the Illumined Ones will get it wrong, as their short term planning is useless.

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  Yea, I dont believe in the moon mission either.   Plans within plans.  The moon in june is waxing at noon.   Water on da moon but not on mars or has NaSA  fessed up to water on mars i fergit.

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Maybe NASA have a consignment of WMD or Prozac to deliver to the Reptilians and Greys as they must be very unhappy living on that Big Rock with nothing to do all day long. :lol:

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Don’t Buy ItEditorial CommentNew Scientist 15th Of April 2006http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4396Evidence-based medicine has started to make a real impact in the past decade. Yet as we move towards more rational treatment in some areas, in others there is a trend in the opposite direction. Every year diseases new to science emerge – complete with the drugs to treat them. These are products of disease mongering. It has long been a tactic of pharmaceutical companies to try to increase the number of people who can be prescribed their drugs. They argue for symptoms that are a little out of the ordinary, such as elevated blood pressure, to be redefined as diseases. They lobby for problems previously seen as social or cultural to be redefined as disorders that would benefit from drug therapy. Thus our medicine cabinets are filling with the likes of antidepressants to treat “social anxiety” (shyness) and “premenstrual dysphoric dysfunction”, appetite suppressants, and stimulants to improve the education performance of children. Another disorder to receive attention from disease mongers is bipolar disorder, or manic-depression. This can be a debilitating condition, but the bar for diagnosing it has been lowered. Drugs once reserved for treating periods or mania are being prescribed for permanent use, and psychotropic drugs are now being dished out to Children diagnosed as bipolar. One line of argument is that people are no longer patients but consumers: drugs for these complaints should be sold over the counter like groceries. That would be fine , except that some of them are very dangerous, do not work, or both. If caution demands that doctors continue to prescribe these drugs, then another problem follows: no country can afford an equitable health service while funding drugs companies’ every invention. This will not be an easy problem to solve. Governments have let drug companies become the main educators of politicians, doctors and the public on many medical issues. Many people sitting on official advisory panels receive industry funding. Patient action groups, desperate for solutions and often with pharmaceutical company support, back treatment for which there is little or no scientific evidence. Determined patients may arrive at their doctors armed with dubious information gleamed online. Some doctors may be eager to try trendy drug treatments, even if they have not been tested or approved for the disorder in question, or may find them the easiest way to placate a distressed patient. At the centre of this tangled web are the pharmaceutical companies. For them, bending the will of politicians, doctors and the public may be a cheaper route to sales than inventing new drugs, but that is no excuse. Alongside the boardroom mantra of “increase shareholder dividend” should sit the medical dictum “do no harm”. Disease mongering is harming individuals and health services. It is a juggernaut that needs to be stopped. Readers Response 14th Of April 2006Just read the above titled article. Right now my brother's wife has just come out of a near death situation. In December 2005 the doctors threw up their hands and told her she had 3 1/2 months to live. She had metastasized breast cancer. She had a partial mastectomy and then 8 months of chemotherapy. About a month ago she developed pneumonia and things were looking grim. The Hospice doctor told my brother she had about 2 days to live. She was in a hospital bed in my brother's front room. She was now unconscious. A niece of ours had mentioned an alternative cancer treatment using Cesium compounds. John went to the net and had what he needed quickly. The first day after giving her about 4 grams orally with food (and supplemented Potassium) the three visible lumps over her sacrum, on one of her thoracic vertebrae and on her heel began to swell. Two days later those visible lumps had totally subsided. He continued the treatment for 17 days. Anyway, she is alive and recovering. My brother says the people that know about this treatment are extremely fearful of saying too much about it. Apparently many have been imprisoned for using the "C" word and cancer in the same sentence. An oncologist that my brother worked with asked my brother "If this cesium is so effective, then why don't I know about it?" My brother answered "Who gives you money for research?" To which the doctor answered "The Pharmaceutical companies." The long and short of it is there is no money to be made on something you cannot patent. So, we think things are looking great, but are still hesitant to say she is free of cancer. The obvious implication to me is that this treatment is relatively side effect free (sometimes nausea and /or diahrea) and should be a front line (first before chemo) treatment. Thank God for the Internet.