This is why the medical establishment is lowering the levels at which patients are told they have (fill in the blanks: diabetes, high cholesterol, etc.)
Not withstanding the various drug recalls, new black box warnings, Vioxx, etc. under the purview of the FDA, The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the NIH recommended the lower numbers after the results of prospective, double-blind studies showed lower morbidity and mortality rates with the new lower numbers.
Congress passed a law recently that all of the data from big pharma drug trials now have to be disclosed to the FDA.