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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

Mad in America

” The study also sheds light on the factors influencing patients’ decisions to continue, switch, or discontinue antidepressant treatment. Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The study was authored by Judith J.

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

Or maybe you’d like to expand your influence with a broader audience. 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.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

Mad in America

Pharmaceutical companies, exerting their influence on academic psychiatry through lucrative honoraria and advisory board payments, have clearly played a role in how antidepressant risks have been presented. This notable gap has raised some suspicion that the necessary research has not merely been overlooked but deliberately avoided.

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

Mad in America

Cost & Quality After a twenty year or so review of the health outcome literature, combined with my clinical experience as a psychologist and an arranger of behavioral healthcare for large self-insured employers, the above words of wisdom by Mark Twain are certainly relevant to both the quality and cost problems in healthcare today.

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

Critical factors such as lifestyle habits and environmental influences, known as Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) , often play a more substantial role. Commercially insured high-cost claimants represent nearly a third of all healthcare spending, even though they are only 1.2% of commercial health insurance enrollees.

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is it weird to stretch at work, is declining a reference call a red flag, and more

Ask a Manager

I feel very disgruntled and disrespected and it’s hard to be the only one without insurance, salary, or benefits (besides the younger intern). They never ask the younger, less educated, less experienced workers to do so (I have somehow become the coffee barista of the office). When job listings offer multiple ways to apply.