The increasing “medicalisation” of society is spawning a culture of mass consumption of medicines that harms rather than heals mankind, B. M. Hegde, cardiologist and former vice chancellor of Manipal University said on Sunday.Delivering a lecture as part of a series of golden jubilee medical lectures organised by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Dr. Hegde said this medicalisation was a product of the unholy alliance between modern medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.........click for more

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