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

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In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays.

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Treating Lawyers with Depression: One Psychologist’s Top 10 Tips

Lawyers with Depression

This is the medical definition of depression. However, this definition fails to capture the experience of what its like to be depressed. I find that many young lawyers and even some older ones have difficulty turning their legal brains off when they leave the office.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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This would seem to meet the legal criteria for libel, given that both the STAR*D authors and the AJP knew that Pigott and colleagues had done no such thing. In the Bible, atonement, as one online definition states, is the process of fixing relationships that have been broken by wrongdoing.

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The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies

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Psychiatry cites twin studies as the gold standard in support of the discipline’s disputed claim that psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetically based brain disorders only minimally influenced by environmental factors or “triggers.” Bouchard, Jr.,