"This is the story of how pills for osteopenia ended up in Benghauser's medicine cabinet, and in the medicine cabinets of millions of women like her all over the United States. But more broadly, it's the story of how the definition of what constitutes a disease evolves, and the role that drug companies can play in that evolution."—Alix Spiegel [NPR]

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https://www.npr.org/2009/12/21/121609815/how-a-bone-disease-grew-to-fit-the-prescription

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