Table of Contents | April 2006

About This Image

Disease Mongering: Turning Healthy People into Patients.

Marie Dauenheimer is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator working in the Washington, D. C., Metropolitan area. She specializes in creating medical illustrations and animations for educational materials, including posters, brochures, books, Web sites, and interactive media.

Marie received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with minors in Art History and Biological Sciences from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She received her Master of Arts in Medical and Biological Illustration from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

In 1991 Marie started her own business based in Reston, Virginia. She has worked on numerous educational programs and CD-ROMs, as well as print materials for medical clients. Some of her clients include the American College of Cardiology, Scientific American, the National Geographic Society, the National Institutes of Health, the US Food and Drug Administration, the American Red Cross, Genentech, Eli Lilly and Company, and Biogen.

In addition to having her own business, Marie has worked as a medical art director and has taught at Parsons School of Design and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Marie is currently teaching drawing and life drawing at the Art Institute of Washington.

Image Credit: Marie T. Dauenheimer (dauenheimer [at] erols.com)

Editorial

Development and Demography: A Relationship That Requires Research

Essays

The Fight against Disease Mongering: Generating Knowledge for Action

Ray Moynihan, David Henry

Bigger and Better: How Pfizer Redefined Erectile Dysfunction

Joel Lexchin

Medicine Goes to School: Teachers as Sickness Brokers for ADHD

Christine B Phillips

Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance

Leonore Tiefer

The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder

David Healy

Pharmaceutical Marketing and the Invention of the Medical Consumer

Kalman Applbaum

Combating Disease Mongering: Daunting but Nonetheless Essential

Iona Heath

Perspectives

Development Projects to Improve Maternal and Child Health: Assessing the Impact

Yemane Berhane

Influenza in Tropical Regions

Cécile Viboud, Wladimir J Alonso, Lone Simonsen

Modeling the Impact of Antiretroviral Use in Developing Countries

Stefano M Bertozzi, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo

Protection against Prenatal Alcohol-Induced Damage

Catherine Y Spong

Policy Forums

Giving Legs to Restless Legs: A Case Study of How the Media Helps Make People Sick

Steven Woloshin, Lisa M Schwartz

Cholinesterase Inhibitors: Drugs Looking for a Disease?

Marina Maggini, Nicola Vanacore, Roberto Raschetti

Disease Mongering in Drug Promotion: Do Governments Have a Regulatory Role?

Barbara Mintzes

Research Articles

An Energy-Saving Development Initiative Increases Birth Rate and Childhood Malnutrition in Rural Ethiopia

Mhairi A Gibson, Ruth Mace

Influenza-Associated Hospitalization in a Subtropical City

Chit Ming Wong, Lin Yang, King Pan Chan, Gabriel M Leung, Kwok H Chan, Yi Guan, Tai Hing Lam, Anthony Johnson Hedley, Joseph S. M Peiris

Modelling the Impact of Antiretroviral Use in Resource-Poor Settings

Rebecca F Baggaley, Geoff P Garnett, Neil M Ferguson

A Single siRNA Suppresses Fatal Encephalitis Induced by Two Different Flaviviruses

Priti Kumar, Sang Kyung Lee, Premlata Shankar, N Manjunath

Large-Scale Evidence for the Effect of the COLIA1 Sp1 Polymorphism on Osteoporosis Outcomes: The GENOMOS Study

Stuart H Ralston, André G Uitterlinden, Maria Luisa Brandi, Susana Balcells, Bente L Langdahl, Paul Lips, Roman Lorenc, Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch, Serena Scollen, Mariona Bustamante, Lise Bjerre Husted, Alisoun H Carey, Adolfo Diez-Perez, Alison M Dunning, Alberto Falchetti, Elzbieta Karczmarewicz, Marcin Kruk, Johannes P. T. M. van Leeuwen, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Jon Mangion, Fiona E. A McGuigan, Leonardo Mellibovsky, Francesca del Monte, Huibert A. P Pols, Jonathan Reeve, David M Reid, Wilfried Renner, Fernando Rivadeneira, Natasja M. van Schoor, Rachael E Sherlock, John P. A Ioannidis

Five Glutathione S-Transferase Gene Variants in 23,452 Cases of Lung Cancer and 30,397 Controls: Meta-Analysis of 130 Studies

Zheng Ye, Honglin Song, Julian P. T Higgins, Paul Pharoah, John Danesh

Stage-Specific Action of Matrix Metalloproteinases Influences Progressive Hereditary Kidney Disease

Michael Zeisberg, Mona Khurana, Velidi H Rao, Dominic Cosgrove, Jean-Philippe Rougier, Michelle C Werner, Charles F Shield III, Zena Werb, Raghu Kalluri

Nicotinamide Protects against Ethanol-Induced Apoptotic Neurodegeneration in the Developing Mouse Brain

Alessandro Ieraci, Daniel G Herrera