Alan Cassels

The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters

Video Replays from the 2019 Conference

Video Replays from previous conferences

  • Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease - with Alan Cassels
    • 01:27:15
Alan Cassels
Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease - with Alan Cassels

Posted Aug 2018

  • Time for action against overdiagnosis. A growing movement to prevent excessive use of medicine
    • 01:24:42
Alan Cassels
Time for action against overdiagnosis. A growing movement to prevent excessive use of medicine

Posted Aug 2018

  • Alan Cassels - How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All Into Patients
    • 55:20
Alan Cassels
Alan Cassels - How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All Into Patients

Posted Sep 2018

  • Full Body CT Scans Deliver 300-500 Times The Amount Of Radiation Compared To A Normal
    • 09:58
Alan Cassels
Full Body CT Scans Deliver 300-500 Times The Amount Of Radiation Compared To A Normal

Posted Oct 2018

  • The Breast Cancer Risks From Getting Mammograms? Are We Getting Accurate Information On Cancer Rates
    • 09:12
Alan Cassels, DR. JOANNA MONCRIEFF, Dr. BEN JOHNSON, MD, DO, NMD
The Breast Cancer Risks From Getting Mammograms? Are We Getting Accurate Information On Cancer Rates

Posted Oct 2018

  • What Does The Science Say About The Benefits Of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs?
    • 26:16
Alan Cassels
What Does The Science Say About The Benefits Of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs?

Posted Oct 2018

  • Is Medical Advice From My Doctor Based On Solid Scientific Evidence? by Alan Cassels
    • 04:10
Alan Cassels
Is Medical Advice From My Doctor Based On Solid Scientific Evidence? by Alan Cassels

Posted Oct 2018

Alan Cassels has been immersed in pharmaceutical policy research and healthcare journalism for the past 23 years, mostly studying and writing about how prescription drugs are regulated, marketed, prescribed and used. His niche is in exposing the large gap between the marketing and the science around prescription drugs, medical screening and other forms of disease creation. His books include Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us All into Patients (co-written with Ray Moynihan), The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters, and Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease.

 

In most of his writings Cassels swings his axe against the folly of practitioners and profiteers increasingly selling us tests, treatments and theories of disease that threaten to turn more and more of us into patients. He believes that humans need clean, clear health information as urgently as they need clean water. His recent book, The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine’s Best Kept Secret (published in 2015) weighs into the history of a stellar international organization which produces some of the world’s highest quality medical information.

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