Monday, December 21, 2009

Numbers to Treat: extending care till it harms

The medical community wants to help.  The pharmaceutical industry wants profits, to develop new drugs.  The consumer is the source.  How women without true osteoporosis are convinced to take bone density drugs that may, in the long run, create the problems they all seek to avoid is described very well in the article (link below), part of an NPR series on our health care system.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121609815

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