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Suddenly sick

A special report by Susan Kelleher and Duff Wilson · June 26 - June 30, 2005

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The number of people with at least one of four major medical conditions has increased dramatically in the past decade because of changes in the definitions of disease. "The new definitions ultimately label 75 percent of the adult U.S. population as diseased," according to calculations by two Dartmouth Medical School researchers.

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