In times of crisis, many pharmaceutical alter the medical criteria that relate to health and disease, to do business

CEO of a well-known pharmaceutical company, Merck Henry Gadsen, more than thirty years ago, told the magazine Fortune : “Our dream is to produce drugs for healthy people.” Looking at the trend of drug spending in OECD countries increased by 17 times since 1980, we can definitely confirm that the paradoxical wish has come true. As the major labels of the medicine we have succeeded? I have explained many good doctors, epidemiological, movement activists to protect the health and rights of the patient are called by the Movement for happy degrowth at a conference organized by the Chamber of Deputies. Another opportunity for discussion will take place in late November in Turin at the second national conference of Slow medicine, a movement that is fighting for a medicine “sober, respectful and fair.”

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