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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

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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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HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries

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All of which will imply how the pharmaceutical industry is likely to conduct its business in the near future. Be it sales and distribution or product discovery and development. Major HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries. Pharmaceutical roles are mostly research-intensive and do not follow a fixed schedule.

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America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants

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The advent of SSRIs in the 1980s and 1990s came with the typical psychiatric sales pitch that these medications protect against adverse outcomes of depression, particularly suicidal behavior, and that they are life-saving. That is not so. Over the course of 30 years, results showed that antidepressant use predicted worsening depression.

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

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T here are reports by a number of women treated with SSRI antidepressants (ADMs) having unexpected orgasms while taking these drugs. One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction.

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

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Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical companies have had a difficult year: the industry is grappling with softening demand for COVID-19-related products. And many small to midsize pharmaceuticals are still looking for funding and partnerships to move their products forward in clinical trials.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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335 In 2000, they co-authored a report of a depression pill trial in New England Journal of Medicine where the authors had so many ties to drug companies that there wasn’t room for them in the print journal (they took up 1067 words). In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness.

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

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The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. The Peterson Center reports that, in the U.S., The Peterson Center reports that, in the U.S., In chapters 2 through 6 I will report on research that suggests the 30% figure is likely to be an understatement of the degree of wasteful spending. The yearly $3.6