Are you being “over-diagnosed”?

Direct from Carolyn Thomas on The Ethical Nag: Find out what happens when drug companies learn that widening boundaries and lowering treatment thresholds can dramatically expand the number of potential customers classed as "patients" who now "need" to buy drugs for their new "disease". For example, only 5% of people with mild/average osteoporosis are saved from a future fracture by taking bone density drugs, which means that the other 95% taking them are exposed to the potential harms of the drugs with NO proven benefit. (Read the full post at The Ethical Nag - Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed.)

SuperMom101's Posted Comment:

Awesome post! Until we the consumers (oops - I mean potential patient population) say enough is enough and stop taking the pills, change our lifestyles, and look at what's on the end of our forks, we are only going to get sicker and sicker. Growing up, the only "medicine" in the cabinet was aspirin, witch hazel, hydrogen peroxide, some bandaids, iodine and tincture soap. What was in yours?