Medicalizing human conditions: A growth industry -- but what does it cost?

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Medicalizing human conditions: A growth industry -- but what does it cost?

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Menopause. Normal pregnancy. Infertility. ADHD. Erectile dysfunction. Over the last several decades, these conditions have come to be defined and treated as medical problems. They've been "medicalized." In the first study of its kind, researchers used national data to estimate the costs of these and a handful of other common conditions on escalating US health care spending.

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Tags: Menopause, Infertility, Erectile Dysfunction, ADHD, Men's Health, Women's Health, Pregnancy

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