The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media. Episode 15, Selling Disease.

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FilmPublisher number: 7119980 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2019Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

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Summary: Discover how drug companies sometimes develop a drug first, and only then identify a disease the drug can address (think restless legs syndrome or chronic dry eye). Is the media helping us focus on our biggest health challenges, or pulling our attention over to the newest problems, problems potentially driven by pharmaceutical marketing?

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Discover how drug companies sometimes develop a drug first, and only then identify a disease the drug can address (think restless legs syndrome or chronic dry eye). Is the media helping us focus on our biggest health challenges, or pulling our attention over to the newest problems, problems potentially driven by pharmaceutical marketing?

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