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The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the concept of "Disease mongering" We can translate this term as "disease promotion" or "invention of diseases." Basically we refer to the campaigns promoted by the pharmaceutical industry and medical technology to try to convert the risk factors in diseases (osteoporosis and pre-osteoporosis, hyperlipidemia, etc) and transform normal life events such as new diseases menopause, shyness (social phobia) or the recurring theme of all the summers of post-holiday syndrome.

The aim of these campaigns is to increase fármacos.Es potential users of what is known as "medicalization of life" that tries to follow the maxim that all healthy people is actually a sick insufficiently examined.

One of the main principles of this practice is the need to "convince" the health professionals of the existence of "new diseases."

Fortunately, there is a groundswell that denounces these practices and trying to spread their message to health professionals and the general population.

For example the journal PLoS Medicine offers an excellent collection of articles tema.En our environment on this platform we can talk "No Thanks" and the initiative promoted by medical students that reinvidican Farmacrticxs training Independent medical industry.

One of the first people to talk about this new phenomenon is the Australian journalist Ray Moynihan that many professionals known for their articles in medical journals like the BMJ.

The journalist with his partner Miranda Burne has produced a documentary to illustrate all the steps in these campaigns.

In the meeting on Wednesday, January 12 we present this documentary because there is a video castellano.El version lasts 25 minutes and led to an interesting debate.


The Castilian version can be purchased at the author's web

One area where there are more diseases is health mental.Aquí invented the definition of what is " disease "or" normal "is subject to discussions of the experts who regularly summarized in the DSM IV specialized catalog

This Castilian video we can see some very illustrative examples (ideal for Disease mongering talk about psychiatrists and psychologists)