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Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Charles Barber See book keywords and concepts

The Asia Times reports that India has emerged as "a preferred destination for outsourcing clinical trials."50 An Indian medical journal complains that the country is becoming "the greatest source of human guinea pigs for the global drug industry."51 GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis all run trials there. Why? Vast numbers of potential research subjects, cheaper costs, and the fact that the patient population is "treatment naive"—they are largely unexposed to drugs, which makes the evaluation of the effect of a given drag easier.

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

The growth of securitization, an increasing reliance on variable-rate financing, the shift away from defined-benefit pensions, the rise of outsourcing and the service-based economy, the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act, and other developments will ensure that ordinary Americans bear the full brunt of the pain as the economy crumbles. Also, a vast array of public and private sector obligations and contingent liabilities, many of which will ultimately be unpaid, will put the kibosh on spending. People will learn the hard way that many safety nets are no longer available.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

Among New Horizons' reports: "The Offshore outsourcing Opportunity in Healthcare Insurance" (2003); "State of the Industry & Market Dynamics for 2003 in Offshore Healthcare Business Process outsourcing (BPO)"; "A Thought Leadership White Paper on Offshore Healthcare Business Process outsourcing (BPO)." Other sources for this section included articles from newspapers, magazines, and Web sites both in India and the United States. The case of the Pakistani transcriber who threatened to post private patient records on the Internet was detailed in a San Francisco Chronicle story of October 22, 2003.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

Another example is outsourcing. Why are hundreds of companies laying off millions of American workers and outsourcing this work to people in other countries? Because it's cheaper! Remember, the corporate officers and directors of publicly traded companies have a legal responsibility to increase profits. If they don't, they will lose their jobs. Big business will always make decisions based on profit, not what is good for the employees, what is good for the customer, what is good for the environment, what is good for society, or what is good for mankind. Let's look at the drug industry.

Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda Jacky Law See book keywords and concepts

Rather than learn what this strong placebo response is telling us, Dr Ken Borow, CEO and president of the clinical outsourcing company, Covalent, suggests companies should design criteria to exclude susceptible patients.18 But these criteria are published and will have an effect on the eventual market success of the product. Two companies, Lilly and Pfizer, have therefore stumped up $1 million (not a lot of money in the scheme of things) to fund scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to investigate how people who respond most to placebos might be isolated.

Interview with Loren McDonald, vice president of marketing at EmailLabs Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Basically, our clients are outsourcing the technology, but running their program themselves. Mike: Is there a consulting component to any of this? For example, helping customers decide how they might want to segment their list, or what triggers they might want to put in place? McDonald: Yes, absolutely. In addition to my role as VP of marketing, I actually do consult with a number of clients. We'll run them through an overview of email best practices -- everything from how to write great subject lines and segment lists to understanding stamp holders and those types of things.

Eye-opening documentary "The Corporation" reveals the true evils behind some Big Business companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

There's a huge outsourcing of labor from Taiwan into China, where they're using cheap, mainland Chinese labor to build physical goods, computer components, electronics and so on, and as a result, this trade is opening up new avenues of potential peace between these two countries. It's opening up the possibility that perhaps someday these two countries will merge and become one, and they will become stronger from doing so. Now, of course that won't happen in the current political climate, but things could evolve in that direction. In the meantime, this trade is preventing war. Why?

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

Co-opting the Scientists: Health Advisors for Sale In addition to outsourcing the science, food makers are increasingly bringing health experts in-house for maximum spin control by inviting them to sit on formal "advisory panels." This tactic burnishes a corporation's reputation by associating it with a body that appears to be "official," "objective," and "impartial." As an added bonus, hiring health professionals often disabuses them of any impulse to speak out critically of industry. As a technique of scientific and academic cooptation, it works like a charm.

Rising popularity of medical tourism reveals deterioration of U.S. healthcare system Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I wouldn't be surprised if sooner or later someone in organized medicine argues that outsourcing our offshore surgical procedures is hurting the U.S. economy, and they might try to pass a law that makes it illegal to go overseas to get surgery. There have already been many attempts to arrest people traveling to anti-cancer clinics in Mexico, or to seize their medicinal herbs as they come back across the border. There is a Gestapo-like effort out there to try to shut down anything that tries to compete with the overpriced, ineffective U.S. healthcare system.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

In past lives he has worked in financial-services outsourcing and rural development in India. ; Currently finishing his MBA in Australia, he is working on making organizations environmentally friendly. Suhit runs a blog at www. SuhitAnatula.com. NICK ASTER [NA] Nick Aster is a recent graduate of the Presidio School of Management with an MBA in sus-1 tainable management. He has a background in online media and built and helps manage www. TreeHugger.com.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

The computerization of corporate America promoted the hemorrhaging of jobs and whole industries to offshore locations and the "outsourcing" of whole departments to other countries. Additional diminishing returns associated with the victory of national chain retail were the wholesale destruction of American communities, including both the "hardware" of towns and the "software" of social roles and networks associated with them. Computers only assisted predatory corporations in more successfully parasitizing existing value in victimized localities.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

Just as insurers are outsourcing medical records to India, so, too, are researchers outsourcing clinical trials in which participants test new drugs. Moving the trials overseas, of course, could save the drug companies billions of dollars. The very existence of the CROs depends on delivering research results the drug companies want to hear—and doing so quickly. That's not to say CROs necessarily manipulate the data. But the outcome of new drug tests can be influenced by many variables.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

Why are hundreds of companies laying off millions of American workers and outsourcing this work to people in other countries? Because it's cheaper! Remember, the corporate officers and directors of publicly traded companies have a legal responsibility to increase profits. If they don't, they will lose their jobs. Big business will always make decisions based on profit, not what is good for the employees, what is good for the customer, what is good for the environment, what is good for society, or what is good for mankind. Let's look at the drug industry.

States sue the federal government over the Bush drug benefit program (commentary) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In the United States, it costs $150 to give a patient a $1 drug that will probably harm them anyway and lead to the prescription of even more expensive drugs. Who benefits from the Bush drug benefit program? Remember, too, this is Bush's "benefit" program. But who does it benefit, really? It doesn't benefit states. They hate the program and it costs them more than doing it the old way. It doesn't benefit the federal government. It just creates more overhead and headaches. It doesn't benefit patients. Hundreds of thousands are left without prescriptions. It DOES benefit Big Pharma.

Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System J.D. Kleinke See book keywords and concepts

They preside over an infinity of rules, regulations, forms, processes, contract outsourcing, financial brokering, benefit plan tinkering, analytical processes, incompatible data systems, and dead forests of paperwork. Health care administration in America is a Tower of Babel that reaches to the moon, built over decades specifically to cope with a "system" designed by historic accident, regulatory redundancy, and ever more ingenious entrepreneurial ambitions. The recurring impulse among everyone who tries to simplify and clarify the U.S.

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