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

Work Life

Construction and utilities: building the future Construction Strong growth is in the cards for the domestic construction sector next year. construction spending hit a more than $2 billion record-high. Meanwhile, job growth slowed in October, in part due to the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

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Appetite for hybrid working shows no sign of letting up at large firms

Workplace Insight

The report, “ Global Hiring Activity Trends & Signals – Q3 2023 ,” claims that sectors such as construction, insurance, banking & payments, technology and communications, and pharmaceuticals posted significant hybrid job roles during the third quarter (Q3) of 2023.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century. When medications did cause harm, the doctors were completely blind to it.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

Jon Jureidini was doing research into patient experiences of antidepressant withdrawal with a view to making submissions to government. In the prevailing Australian Government view, withdrawal symptoms affect a small minority and probably represents relapse to the original condition. I contacted him, and he graciously took me on.

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Nine Actions to Mitigate Specialty Drug Costs

Inside Workplace Wellness

who owns the results of the test--the patient or the entity that paid for it) get ironed out, it will change how formularies are constructed. The demise of the CMS deal illustrates how difficult it is to figure out how much government health programs should pay for expensive treatments whose long-term benefits are still unclear.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people. We explore this issue further in our final section.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.