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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

Depression was sold to us as a simple problem of serotonin insufficiency, a convenient narrative that made drug companies like Eli Lilly, Forest Pharmaceuticals, and Pfizer very rich. As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

When the mandates of the Affordable Care Act hit the marketplace in 2013, for example, insurance brokers nationwide were challenged with delivering additional value to their customers to offset rising healthcare costs for employers. Provide an incremental lift to enterprise sales and revenue. Create predictable revenue streams.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. healthcare bill is only exceeded by the approximately $3.8

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 4)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. The above study, funded by Forest Pharmaceuticals, quickly boosted the sales of Celexa to depressed children and teens.

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HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries

Vantage Circle

All of which will imply how the pharmaceutical industry is likely to conduct its business in the near future. How are they going to meet patients’ needs and healthcare systems extensively? It pressurizes the healthcare system, both in terms of nature and scale of the demand and healthcare costs and drug development.

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Labor trends to watch in 2024: A U.S. economic outlook and sector play-by-play

Work Life

Life sciences: making strides despite hurdles Healthcare The healthcare sector is likely to see consistent headcount growth into next year—and organizations will need all the help they can get to address critical workforce shortages. Hospitals averaged a staggeringly low unemployment rate of 1.4%

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How Great Workplaces Measure the ROI of Internships

Great Place to Work

With the support of our interns — many of whom go on to make up more than half of our entry-level employee population and grow into fine leaders — we’ve developed 24 divisions of industry specialization, from healthcare IT to pharmaceuticals to enterprise resource planning and more, generating over $600 million in revenue annually.