Tag: Biotechnology

The Family Profiting From the Opioid Crisis Hides Behind Charity

America is facing an unprecedented public health crisis— opioid addiction and the subsequent loss of many lives. The prescription drug OxyContin has been attributed to many of these deaths. Amazingly, however, little is known about the proprietors of OxyContin— the Sackler family. Their secret? Calculated and lavish acts of philanthropy. America’s Opioid Crisis: a Public Health Issue of Epic Proportions A recent article published in the New...

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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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...

The 10 Breakthrough Technologies That Will Make 2018

Technology is changing at a breakneck speed and growing more sophisticated every year. Since 2001, the MIT Technology Review has released an annual list...

10 Futuristic Breakthroughs That Are Saving Millions of Lives

It's almost mind-boggling to think that between 1900 to 2017, global life expectancy more than doubled, with a majority of people living past the...