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Armata Pharmaceuticals Offices – Marina Del Rey

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The design is influenced by the natural surroundings on which the 56,000 square foot building sits in Marina Del Rey. Design : Worksmart Design Design Team : Mandy Adams, Fiona Chan Photography : RJ Guillermo The post Armata Pharmaceuticals Offices – Marina Del Rey appeared first on Office Snapshots.

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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

Mad in America

” The study also sheds light on the factors influencing patients’ decisions to continue, switch, or discontinue antidepressant treatment. Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The study was authored by Judith J.

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

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Or maybe you’d like to expand your influence with a broader audience. Venture capital funds are seeing increased success in pharmaceutical, health care and technology company startup labs across the country, as they partner with various providers to share liabilities and costs while creating more value in the mutually supported businesses.

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Antidepressant Trials “Hijacked for Marketing Purposes,” Researchers Say

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They looked at the largest, most influential clinical trials of antidepressants and found that almost half were so biased that they could be considered “seeding trials”—or studies that provide marketing materials for the pharmaceutical industry, not valid scientific data. Large trials are rare in the field of antidepressant research.

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Only One of Five Key Xanax Trials Deemed Positive by F.D.A.

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Turner has used FDA data to illuminate the influence of publication bias and lack of efficacy of other drugs as well, including antidepressants and esketamine. Unpublished trials of alprazolam XR and their influence on its apparent efficacy for panic disorder. It was published in Psychological Medicine. Y., & Turner, E.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. It’s continuing this idea that there’s something wrong in you that needs an external influence to correct, isn’t it? How about the kids?

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Mad in America

She is co-author, with Robert Whitaker, of Psychiatry under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform. When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is.