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Susan Kelleher and Duff Wilson of The Seattle Times published the first in a series of special reports today that take a look at the practices being used by the drug industry to create "diseases" by changing and defining statistics, creating a new expensive drug, and then "teaching" doctors to prescribe it. The article looks in depth at how many people throughout the entire process are influenced by and receive money from the drug companies. The article has disturbing examples such as how 75% of the elderly population is now considered to have hypertension after the drug industry was successful in changing the definition of hypertension. Rob The Times found that:
Pharmaceutical firms have commandeered the process by which diseases are defined. Many decision makers at the World Health Organization, the U.S. National Institutes of Health and some of America's most prestigious medical societies take money from the drug companies and then promote the industry's agenda. Some diseases have been radically redefined without a strong basis in medical evidence.
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