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Big Pharma Billionaire Arrested for Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Opioids

Billionaire and founder of Insys Therapeutics, Dr John Kapoor, has been arrested for his involvement in a diabolical scheme involving his company's top selling opioid drug— Subsys. Curiously, it all went down on the very same day the Trump administration declared America’s opioid crisis as a national public health emergency. According to CBS News, Kapoor was arrested early on Thursday morning at his home in...
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Finally, a Judge Who Dispels the Myths of Rape ‘Once and For All’

Last month, a judge in California sparked outrage after sentencing 23-year-old Stanford student, Brock Turner, to a six-month prison sentence after he was indicted...

Should we Avoid the News for the Sake of our Sanity?

Violence, sensationalism, conflict and fear-mongering have always dominated the nightly news. But recently, coverage of the attacks in Paris, Orlando, and Nice have shown...

Scientists Have Discovered What May Be the First Safe Opiate

According to the CDC, from 2000 to 2014 nearly 500,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S. 2014 had a record high of...

Why Aspirin May be the Most Powerful Weapon in the War on Brain Cancer

Less than 20 percent of people with brain cancer survive more than five years after their diagnosis. It’s one of the most deadly forms...

How Our Quest For Health is Actually Making us Sick

If you took a snapshot of the state of American health in 2016, the image would be confusing at best. On one hand, in...

Examining the Ban on Gay Blood Donations After the Orlando Shooting

In the early morning of Sunday, June 12, Omar Mateen went on a terrifying rampage that killed 49 people and injured 53 at a gay...

How Two Biotech Companies are Trying to Bring the Dead Back to Life

For centuries, humans have tried to bring people back from the dead and, as far as we know, every attempt has failed. In modern...

Beating Ebola with the Blood of Survivors

The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed over 11,300 people, infected 28,000, and would eventually spread to nine countries. In the disease's wake,...

Revolutionizing Lung Cancer with a Vaccine Cuba has had for Years

The United States’ 55-year trade embargo with Cuba was the last great bastion of the Cold War. It prevented any exports to Cuba except...

Ebola Contained, but What About the Thousands Left Suffering

On December 2, 2014, after playing in a tree colonized by bats, two-year-old Emile Ouamouno began vomiting intensely. Four days later, he died. Researchers...

Could 3-D Printers be the Cure for Heart Disease?

Every year, nearly 600,000 Americans die from heart disease. Other vital organs are able to regenerate after sustaining damage, but heart tissue cannot heal...

Teenager Wins $400k By Explaining Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in Video

In 1905, Albert Einstein turned humanity's understanding of the universe on its ear by introducing his theory of relativity. The theory introduced a completely...