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Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?

By ALEX BERENSON

Published: January 14, 2008

Fibromyalgia is a real disease. Or so says Pfizer in a new television

advertising campaign for Lyrica, the first medicine approved to treat

the pain condition, whose very existence is questioned by some

doctors.

For patient advocacy groups and doctors who specialize in

fibromyalgia, the Lyrica approval is a milestone. They say they hope

Lyrica and two other drugs that may be approved this year will

legitimize fibromyalgia, just as Prozac brought depression into the

mainstream.

But other doctors — including the one who wrote the 1990 paper that

defined fibromyalgia but who has since changed his mind — say that

the disease does not exist and that Lyrica and the other drugs will

be taken by millions of people who do not need them.