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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

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. It also allows you to create more authority in your area of expertise. A strategy for success.

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

Mad in America

This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. Running Assays in people diagnosed as depressed, however, was a problem. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. Even fewer spot the role assays play.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

Mad in America

Over time, she began to interpret more of her problems as “possession.” They then help others with their problems. Where psychology and psychiatry tend to locate problems within an individual’s mind, faith healing takes a different approach. Siddiqui refers to this phenomenon as the “shuffling symptom.”

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Tackling Health Spending

Inside Workplace Wellness

On Thursday, the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC) and Health Affairs launched a new initiative to address health spending called Going Below the Surface. I heard yesterday that Consumer Reports is pulling out of the initiative and that the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions is going to step in to fill the void.

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Tapering Strips: A Practical Tool for Personalised and Safe Tapering of Withdrawal-Causing Prescription Drugs

Mad in America

According to the FDA, ‘ healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient ’ ( FDA, 2018 ). Metaphorically speaking, this is akin to allowing pharmaceutical companies to sell cars without having to verify if they have brakes that are functioning.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

Through the four businesses she has founded, which span strategic services, design, construction and events, Burgess helps solve problems for good and create spaces and events that make you feel happy. She is a problem solver, a solution maven, and an avid investor in emerging brands and creator of her own CPG brands. .

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Lessons from a Global Psychiatric Conference: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated

Mad in America

The pharmaceutical industry in this conference was treated like a creepy rich uncle who you must invite to the family reunion but then also strategically ignore. Unlike what I had read about the savviness of pharmaceutical representatives, reps here were only mildly interested in selling their products and knew even less about them.