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The 50 colleges and universities making an outsize impact on business and society

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Whether it’s the pharmaceutical industry, or transportation, or digital agriculture, or microelectronic industry, or aerospace industry, Purdue has been doing very well” in forging alliances, Chiang said. “We

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

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Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical companies have had a difficult year: the industry is grappling with softening demand for COVID-19-related products. And many small to midsize pharmaceuticals are still looking for funding and partnerships to move their products forward in clinical trials.

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

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Neighborhood and Built Environment: Housing quality, transportation access, availability of nutritious foods, pollution levels, and neighborhood crime. This does not even account for medical and pharmaceutical costs. Education Access and Quality: Education level achieved, literacy, childhood development and education.

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The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz

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Beyond academia, he contributes significantly to public health policy as a member of the United Kingdom’s Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulations. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology.

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

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Metaphorically speaking, this is akin to allowing pharmaceutical companies to sell cars without having to verify if they have brakes that are functioning. mg of a linear taper of venlafaxine has about 3 times as large an effect on the occupation of the serotonin transporter as all 8 previous dose reductions of more than 200 mg combined.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

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Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences. Even if the harms are not properly recognized or understood till decades later. The post What Are We Overlooking?

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AI will eliminate many ‘blue-collar’ jobs—and 4 other AI predictions

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Pharmaceutical companies will find their R&D costs cut significantly, simply because AI can help invent many drugs at much lower costs, including cures for rare diseases. Creating Safer and More Efficient Transportation While AI self-driving software at present isn’t delivering on its promise, that will change in years to come.