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

Mad in America

One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. However, I doubt that a pharmaceutical company would market Viagra as a treatment for depression; to do so one would have to diagnose depression as caused by an “insufficient blood supply to the genitals”!

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How Great Workplaces Measure the ROI of Internships

Great Place to Work

Combine that limited supply with a massive uptick in applicants, as reported by RippleMatch , and business leaders are missing an important opportunity. We also look at indicators like sales success and professional advancement. Are fewer companies hiring interns?

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A Prescription For Empowering Employees To Succeed And Grow

Tanveer Naseer

When I was 18 years old, my uncle got me a job working in the warehouse of a pharmaceutical dispensary near his house in the Toronto suburbs. As it turned out, one of the doctors in the medical building had been prescribing large quantities of this drug to the point that we were having a hard time keeping it in supply.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.