Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Research category.
Pharmaceutical start-ups: Phytomedics
Filed in Clinical Trials, Legal, Personal Health, Research, Safety, July 29, 2008, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabioI read today about a really interesting pharmaceutical company that, though it’s considered a start-up, has spent the last 12 years researching and developing new drugs and methodologies that will allow for more rapid and safer development of drug products: Phytomedics. Their focus is on botanical drugs, which, in theory, could provide many of [...]
The Agonist/Antagonist Duel for Enhanced Pharmaceuticals
Filed in Clinical Trials, Research, Safety, July 22, 2008, 12:01 am by Scott AlexanderThis is the first posting from Scott Alexander. For more information about Scott, click the Author link on this page.
One of the persistent challenges of the Pharmaceutical industry has been maintaining the safety and efficacy of drug products in patients over time. In other words, when a patient starts taking the drug, the patient [...]
Pharmaceutical Start-ups: WellGen
Filed in Personal Health, Research, July 1, 2008, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabioOn April 7th, I had the opportunity to attend the biannual Pharm Fest at Montclair State University. It was a well-organized and interesting event, with several seminars of interest. I wish I could write a full-fledged article on each of the panelists I heard from during that seminar, because I believe they’re all [...]
$10,000 Health Challenge to Big Pharma
Filed in Personal Health, Research, June 24, 2008, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabioThe other day I was forwarded a link by a friend of mine to a personal health newsletter called “NaturalNews.com.” This was actually for a technology consulting position that I had been forwarded, but in doing my due diligence, I investigated the web site to find out more about the company. I found [...]
Back to Virtuality
Filed in Research, Sociology, Technology, June 17, 2008, 4:50 pm by Mariano DiFabioIt’s been a while since I last wrote on the blog, and for those of you that follow regularly, I apologize. We’ve had a lot going on in our company, and if you haven’t already heard, we re-designed our web site (go to www.avelient.com to see the new site) and released our first major [...]
Spurious Motivation
Filed in Advertising/Media, Research, April 4, 2008, 4:41 pm by Mariano DiFabioIn 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 [...]
Morphing Blood
Filed in Research, March 25, 2008, 9:21 pm by Mariano DiFabioI try to give blood as often as possible. When I’m working at a big client, they usually have a regularly scheduled blood donation day every 3-4 months, in which I can usually participate even as a consultant. It’s a practice I started right after September 11th, 2001, when the company for which [...]
Consumer Protection
Filed in Advertising/Media, Research, Safety, Statistical Analysis, March 18, 2008, 9:54 pm by Mariano DiFabioAs 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 [...]
Immune System Switches
Filed in Personal Health, Research, March 4, 2008, 11:24 pm by Mariano DiFabioFor as much control as we exert over our bodies, it’s amazing to me how much control it retains for itself. So many involuntary actions that occur regardless of whether we want them to or not. I really hadn’t thought much about it until I came across an article in Harvard Magazine entitled, [...]
Superbugs
Filed in Pediatric Medicine, Personal Health, Research, February 29, 2008, 9:45 pm by Mariano DiFabioLast week, my son was not himself. He was easily frustrated, especially given that it was difficult to express what was bothering him at his current level of language development. Both my wife and I attributed his behavior to his teeth likely bothering him, but my mother-in-law on Wednesday mentioned that she thought [...]
