Category Archive

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

Personal Doctor in my Pill

Filed in General, Technology, January 8, 2008, 11:59 am by Mariano DiFabio

You may remember my article about Swiss experimentation with Microbots and their potential for use in new surgical procedures in the future. Being a technology professional, I’m amazed when we can identify ways to leverage technology to make things smaller or to make smaller things do more. Along those lines, I was fascinated [...]

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, [...]

The Ann Myers Medical Center Part 2: Virtual Meeting

Filed in Technology, December 11, 2007, 10:14 pm by Mariano DiFabio ,

First, I must apologize to the fans of this blog who were looking for a post on Friday: I didn’t get to it. Last week I was inundated with project and sales work, and by the time I realized on Saturday night that I never posted, I figured I’d just wait until Tuesday to [...]

Massachusetts could be Top on Biofuel Push

Filed in Legal, Technology, November 9, 2007, 10:50 pm by Mariano DiFabio

Not that I’m an advocate of getting all my news from one source, but one of the news sites that I make regular visits to is the Boston.com web site. Originally from a suburb of Boston, I try to keep up with what’s going on in Beantown, I follow local sports teams, and find [...]

A Virtually Limitless Resource: The Ann Myers Medical Center

Filed in Personal Health, Sociology, Technology, November 2, 2007, 10:24 pm by Mariano DiFabio ,

As I walk up the steps of the medical building, a stone wall to my left is plainly evident with the photo of a silver-haired woman at the center. She lovingly holds a dog, showing her affection with a kiss, and a love for life atypical for someone who has experienced what she has. [...]

MIT: Building a Better Manufacturing Process for Novartis for $65m

Filed in General, Research, Technology, September 28, 2007, 3:16 pm by Mariano DiFabio

In a Boston Globe article posted today, pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced that it would be contributing $65 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) over the next 10 years to create a new research program with a goal of improving the current drug manufacturing process with better technology in order to save both time [...]

Wonder Wheat

Filed in Research, Technology, September 14, 2007, 10:06 pm by Mariano DiFabio ,

You may have been to the supermarket recently and noticed an increase in the price of pasta. One of my college friends once called it the “poor single man’s dinner,” providing a filling meal that was easy to make and easy on the wallet. While still an incredibly inexpensive food and something that [...]

The Personal Range Finder

Filed in Personal Health, Technology, September 4, 2007, 11:58 am by Mariano DiFabio

Today’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 [...]

Microbots: Swiss Precision

Filed in Research, Technology, August 28, 2007, 3:18 pm by Mariano DiFabio

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the concept of nanotechnology, its study and application to medicine and how the field might change the way scientists handle their approach to disease and other afflictions of the human body, perhaps allowing repair of the body without any kind of invasive surgery. I reminisced about Star [...]

Schizophrenia with a Technology Twist

Filed in Personal Health, Research, Technology, August 24, 2007, 12:20 pm by Mariano DiFabio , ,

On 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 [...]