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INDEX
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    absolute risk, 14–16, 165–66, 229
    academic experts.
See
conflicts of interest
    academic research, 94–95, 109, 196–97.
See also
medical research
    Activase, 226–27
    Actonel, 214–15, 246
    advertising.
See
direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising
    AFCAPS/TexCAPS study, 137–40
    age
    antidepressants and, 243
    coronary heart disease and, 129, 136–42, 145
    menopause and, 61
    osteoporosis and, 212, 215, 219
    strokes and, 16
    AIDS, 43, 80
    alcohol consumption, 20, 45, 238
    alendronate, 213–15, 218, 246
    allergy drugs, 152–53
    ALLHAT study, 107–9, 143–44, 203
    alteplase, 226–27
    Alzheimer’s disease, 58, 69, 104
    American Heart Association, 100, 224, 226–27, 237
    American medicine.
See
health care system, U.S.
    angina, 14, 132
    angioplasty, 169, 171–72, 221
    Annals of Internal Medicine
, 96
    antiarrhythmic drugs, 114
    antibiotics, 49
    antidepressant drugs, 11, 114–17, 163, 232–34, 243
    anti-inflammatory drugs.
See
Celebrex and Vioxx
    aortic aneurysm device, 243–44
    arrhythmia, 44, 98–101, 114
    arthritis.
See
osteoarthritis
    aspirin, 16, 49, 34–35, 132
    AstraZeneca, 101, 148
    atrial fibrillation, 7–8
    Atromid-S, 133
    back pain, 182–83
    back surgery, 177–78, 182–83
    balloon angioplasty, 169, 171–72, 221
    Berlex Laboratories, 89
    bias.
See
commercial research bias
    biomedical engineering, 42–44, 176–77, 243–44
    biomedical model, 189–208
    as folk medicine, 201–4
    lifestyle factors vs., 11, 204–6
    medical education and, 197–200
    osteoarthritis and, 190–94
    patients vs. persons and, 206–8
    roots of, 194–97
    blood pressure
    coronary heart disease and, 129, 221
    drugs, 104–5, 107–9, 245
    hormone replacement therapy and, 67
    screening, 49
    strokes and, 17, 20, 225
    body mass index (BMI), 238
    bone marrow transplantation, 41, 51–52
    bone mineral density (BMD) tests, 62, 211–20
    breast cancer, 234.
See also
cancer
    bone marrow transplantation and high-dose chemotherapy for, 39–42, 51–53
    hormone replacement therapy and, 55–58, 61, 68, 69–71
    Bristol-Myers Squibb, 90–91, 146, 227–28, 242
    campaign contributions, 90–91
    Canada, 159–61, 171, 174, 175, 245
    cancer, 234–35
    breast (
see
breast cancer)
    endometrial (uterine), 62, 70
    heart disease vs., 220
    mortality rates, 50
    screening, 49, 235
    statin drugs and, 145–46
    study patients for, 104
    cardiac catheterization, 169, 171–72, 175
    cardiac defibrillators, 44, 98–101
    cardiopulmonary bypass surgery, 43, 169–73, 175–76
    cardiovascular complications, 26–27, 33–36, 38, 107–9, 246
    CARE study, 142–43
    Carnegie Foundation, 196–97
    cataract surgery,