How a disease is created!

clipped from seattletimes.nwsource.com Special Projects Index Suddenly sick A special report by Susan Kelleher and Duff Wilson · June 26 - June 30, 2005 What can go wrong when the drug industry influences what constitutes disease, who has it, and how it should be treated. Hypertension New guidelines pay off — for drug companies Doctors who take drug-company money Hypertension treatments, costs Obesity Rush toward new weight-loss drugs tramples health Tipping the scales: Calculating BMI Can an NBA player be fat? Osteoporosis Disease expands via marketing and machines Who has osteoporosis FDA to Merck: Brochure is misleading How a disease is created Creating medical experts Change a number, create a patient — four examples Top drug makers Deep-vein thrombosis Many new drugs have strong dose of media hype Drug-industry ads boom Scary headlines Female sexual dysfunction Clash over "little blue pill" for women Drug development and sales