Is Big Pharma Inventing Diseases?

The Public Library of Science and Medicine, a peer-reviewed open-access journal, this week has a series of 11 articles focusing on Disease Mongering.

The articles claim pharmaceutical companies are inventing diseases to increase sales figures while offering nothing about disease prevention.

Exerpt from one of the articles:

Disease mongering turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources, and causes iatrogenic harm. Like the marketing strategies that drive it, disease mongering poses a global challenge to those interested in public health, demanding in turn a global response. This theme issue of PLoS Medicine is explicitly designed to help provoke and inform that response.