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When it comes to taking opioids, the United States are world-beaters. For every one million Americans, almost 50,000 doses of opioids are taken every day. That's four times the rate in the UK.
The manufacturer of a leading brand of painkiller has been accused of misleading customers in Australia. But how do people choose over-the-counter pain relief? There's a whole range of Nurofen products. There are Nurofen capsules, caplets and "meltlets".
In every company there is a parallel power structure that can be just as important as the one everyone spends stressful days trying to master.
2007-07-23
power organization leadership organigram network company business work officeRestless leg syndrome, social anxiety disorder, female sexual dysfunction, celebrity worship syndrome - it seems that a new illness is invented every week, covering every potential quirk in human behaviour. Is the human condition becoming a medical condition?
2009-03-30
health hypochondria psychology medicine business... may have identified a characteristic change that occurs as stress builds within a company: employees start talking directly to people they feel comfortable with, and stop sharing information more widely.
2009-06-22
business communication social psychology e-mail stress clique crisisThe German company Tutogen's business in body parts is as secretive as it is lucrative. It extracts bones from corpses in Ukraine to manufacture medical products, as part of a global market worth billions that is centered in the United States.
2009-08-28
organ trade death corpse business transplantAmerica's administrator in Iraq has warned that the country will need tens of billions of dollars to rebuild its shattered infrastructure.
2003-08-27
war profiteering War On Terror USA invasion Iraq reconstruction businessCompanies from countries opposed to the conflict in Iraq will be barred from bidding for new rebuilding contracts worth $18.6bn, the Pentagon has said. US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said the policy was necessary to protect America's "essential security interests". The 26 prime contracts cover areas such as oil, power, communications, water, housing and public works centres. The ban would exclude firms from...
2003-12-10
war profiteering War On Terror USA reconstruction business incredible Pentagon invasion