Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Personal Health category.
The Future of our Health
Filed in Personal Health, October 16, 2007, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabioToday’s post is courtesy of Susan Torlucci, an NSA Wellness Educator that I met at one of my small business networking groups. She began her career as an information technology expert, deeply involved in system design, development, implementation and training throughout the first 13 years of her career. After a hiatus of about 10 years [...]
Women: Think before you Drink
Filed in Personal Health, Research, October 9, 2007, 2:54 pm by Mariano DiFabioAlcohol has become a very confusing substance in recent memory. When I was growing up, it was something that only the adults drank, but it was something that could be very bad for me so I wasn’t encouraged to start. It was a substance associated with terrible addiction, yet served as a rite [...]
Tall, Fair and Handsome
Filed in Personal Health, Sociology, September 25, 2007, 4:36 pm by Mariano DiFabioCosmetic pharmaceuticals is an interesting industry to look at in different parts of the world. Sociologically speaking, what people want to look like versus what they do look like appears to play an intricate role in the products that are developed and how they are sold. But what kind of message is being [...]
Supplemental Health
Filed in Personal Health, Research, September 18, 2007, 11:49 pm by Mariano DiFabioLast night, my company sponsored an event for our meetup group where our speaker discussed licensing within a pharmaceutical setting, different types of licensing, and advantages and disadvantages to each. During a discussion about the current state of the pharmaceutical industry, I said there should be more exploration into alternative medicines and dietary-supplements as [...]
Ethical Dilemma
Filed in Clinical Trials, Legal, Personal Health, Research, September 11, 2007, 3:21 pm by Mariano DiFabioIn my second post ever on this site, I wrote about the FDA Fast Track program called Pay-For-Review, and I questioned whether drug companies who took advantage of this program were being given enough scrutiny for the products they were putting to market. Interestingly, in a Boston Globe article yesterday called “Burden of Proof,” [...]
The Personal Range Finder
Filed in Personal Health, Technology, September 4, 2007, 11:58 am by Mariano DiFabioToday’s blog comes to us from Justin Downs, a student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Justin has a broad range of talents that he’s explored since getting his Bachelor’s degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2002, including [...]
Heartburn Releif
Filed in Personal Health, Research, August 31, 2007, 1:50 pm by Mariano DiFabioIf you’re Italian, you’re familiar with the term “agita” (also spelled “agida”), which is slang that generally means heartburn. It’s been somewhat more popularized by its use in HBO’s “The Sopranos,” but I’ve been hearing it since I was a little kid, often used by my relatives to described what I gave them when [...]
Schizophrenia with a Technology Twist
Filed in Personal Health, Research, Technology, August 24, 2007, 12:20 pm by Mariano DiFabioOn August 22nd, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Risperdal to treat children with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The drug is not new; it has been used to treat adults with the same diseases since 1993, and in general, psychiatrists have been prescribing the drug in lower doses to children in need of [...]
Killing the Cure
Filed in General, Personal Health, August 17, 2007, 12:00 pm by Mariano DiFabioJust before I went away on vacation, I got sick. I had a runny nose, was feverish, and was generally feeling difficulty convincing myself that it was worth moving any faster than a sloth. I was therefore pretty thankful to be getting away, thinking, of course, that the rest would do my body [...]
Living in the 3rd Dimension
Filed in Personal Health, Research, Technology, August 15, 2007, 2:20 pm by Mariano DiFabioMy nephew Max is about to be a star. What’s most interesting about this is that he isn’t born yet; he’s not due until November. However, we’re all going to get to see his little mug on our computer screens today thanks to the technology behind 3D ultrasound and streaming video on the [...]
