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Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients (edit title/settings)

by Ray Moynihan (Author) (edit contributors)

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Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. It had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people so that Merck could "sell to everyone." Gadsden's... read more

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Little known as a health complaint when Henry Gadsden was still managing Merck 30 years ago, the fear of a condition called 'high cholesterol' has quickly come to dominate the personal health concerns of tens of millions of people around the globe.

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  1. Ray Moynihan (Author)

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