An author and journalist who writes about medical issues offers a chilling account of the expansion of the pharmeceutical industry throughout the world--a move that could potentially turn billions of people into permanent patients.

Product Description: Thirty years ago, the head of the drug company Merck made some remarkably candid comments about his distress that his company's market was limited to sick people. Suggesting he would like Merck to be more like the maker of Wrigley's chewing gum, the CEO said it had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people, to "sell to everyone...read more