Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Research category.

Pharmaceutical Start-ups: WellGen

Filed in Personal Health, Research, July 1, 2008, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabio

On 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 DiFabio

The 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 DiFabio , ,

It’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 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 [...]

Morphing Blood

Filed in Research, March 25, 2008, 9:21 pm by Mariano DiFabio

I 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 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 [...]

Immune System Switches

Filed in Personal Health, Research, March 4, 2008, 11:24 pm by Mariano DiFabio

For 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 DiFabio ,

Last 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 [...]

Seeing Double: Pet Cloning

Filed in General, Research, Technology, February 19, 2008, 11:15 pm by Mariano DiFabio

In 1996, the scientific community saw a breakthrough when Dolly the sheep was deemed the first animal cloned from an adult sheep cell. With the breakthrough came a slew of moral questions asked by any number of groups. Were we playing God? Were we going too far? What kinds of problems [...]

MMR Vaccine and Autism: More Meticulous Research

Filed in Research, February 15, 2008, 11:22 pm by Mariano DiFabio , ,

As the number of cases of children identified with autism grows in this country, it seems that the number of news items on the subject increases along with it. As you may have seen even on this blog, I’ve covered a lot about the disorder, from its possible link to vaccinations to its treatment [...]