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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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It’s not surprising for a company that reportedly spent over $100 million on advertising in 2023, making it the country’s projected leading sponsor of podcasts. BetterHelp’s website referred to one published study of 318 patients, most of whom primarily used text messages to communicate with their therapists.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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His Get Attitude podcast won a Communicator Award for Diversity & Inclusion for his 8:46 Interviews Stories of Black America. Her true passion is to inspire and help others with directional wisdom and to amplify their communication, connection and confidence to run a successful real estate business. Andrea Callanan.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Business owners on our Main Street held pride in their neighborhood and took on leadership roles within our community.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

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The biomedical model is so entrenched in our culture that it has become gospelpreached in doctor’s offices, reinforced by advertising, and accepted as unquestioned truth, even though its been debunked. As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. They police advertisements claims but policing the medical literature is not their job. And some doctors will always agree to get involved in the illusion of communication. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. They go by the evidence.

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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

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It was thus important that the journal, in a psychosomatic spirit, offered a free, but rigorously evaluated, channel for scientific communications. It is indeed rare to see such issues debated: is this because of some censorship operated by medical journals, meeting organizers, and certain pharmaceutical manufacturers?

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How Elon Musk’s government efficiency panel could work

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Ramaswamy, who founded pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, has worked with the Food and Drug Administration, an agency he has previously called “corrupt” On social media site X in 2023 he added that “Countless FDA regulations and actions are hypocritical, harmful & unconstitutional.”