Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Advertising/Media category.

Spurious Motivation

Filed in Advertising/Media, Research, April 4, 2008, 4:41 pm by Mariano DiFabio ,

In a study published in October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke, a cancer researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, and her collaborator, Dr. David Yankelevitz, made a significant statement to the world of cancer research when they indicated that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented if CT scans were used more ubiquitously as [...]

Consumer Protection

Filed in Advertising/Media, Research, Safety, Statistical Analysis, March 18, 2008, 9:54 pm by Mariano DiFabio , ,

As I was leafing through my March 2008 issue of Pharmaceutical executive, I noticed a focus on consumer protection in the articles I was reading. I’m not sure if it was intentional, but I thought it an interesting topic to mull on for a while, especially given that the state of the economy seems [...]

Rx Email

Filed in Advertising/Media, Technology, December 25, 2007, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabio

So before you ask, no, I did not write this on Christmas day. I do have limits. I wrote this on Friday December 21st, actually — but through the miracle of technology I was able to set up my blog software to post it for me on my usual Tuesday schedule. Having done that, [...]