Cashing in on Menopause

Cashing in on Menopause

Drugmakers want drugs that people take for decades (which is why they don't develop antibiotics, taken for a measly 10 days.)Pharma's top revenue streams include kids with ADHD (remaining on drugs until adulthood), people "living with mental illness," the obese and diabetic, those "at risk" of cardiovascular disease (who will take statins), and women.Until 2003, approximately 61 million US women took hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the "di…