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• Osteoporosis Drugs: Good Medicine or Big Pharma Scam?

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 127
  A recent story on NPR accused the drug manufacturer Merck of inventing a disease, osteopenia, in order to sell its drug Fosamax. It showed how the definition of what constitutes a disease evolves, and the role that drug companies can play in that evolution. Osteoporosis is a reduction in bone mineral density that ...
  17 hours ago

• The creation of a new “disease,” osteopenia, to sell Merck’s Fosamax

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 134
  NPR recently had an amazing story by Alix Spiegel of how pharmaceutical company Merck help turn a research term, osteopenia , into a diagnosis “treated,” often ineffectively, by Merck’s drug Fosamax. The story involves the creation of osteopenia, a supposed subthreshold version of osteoporosis or low bone ...
  4 days ago

• NPR: How Osteopenia Became a Treatable Disease

  
  Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma — Authority: 115
  Alix Spiegel at NPR did a fabulous story on drug treatment for osteopenia: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121609815&sc=emaf The story lays out the history of how Merck addressed the problem it first faced with its new drug, alendronate (Fosamax): It seemed to be a breakthrough drug for ...
  1 week ago

• Boning Up On How Merck Marketed Fosamax

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 538
  Did you know that ostopenia is considered by many physicians to be normal thinning of bones as aging occurs? And that in 1992 a group of osteoporisis experts met in Rome and decided arbitrarily who should be treated for ostopenia? Essentially, they created a new category and never imagined the term would become a ...
  1 week ago

• NPR to air explanatory Fosamax piece tonight

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 136
  NPR correspondent Alix Spiegel’s latest piece, an examination of how Merck manufactured a disease (and an epidemic) en route to turning Fosamax into a blockbuster drug, is set to air on All Things Considered tonight. We all know how the story ends, but the real focus is the journey. As Spiegel says, “it’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Causes Adhesive Capsulitis

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 139
  Frozen Shoulder Adhesive Capsulitis pain can be debilitating. In this article we’re going to look at what causes frozen shoulder, how you would get diagnosed with frozen shoulder , and what your options are if you have pain from Frozen shoulder. Starting off, what is Frozen shoulder? Frozen shoulder is ...
  3 weeks ago

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