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...
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...
On June 19, mechanical engineers from Stanford University and the University of California published a Science Robotics paper on a revolutionary new robot that looks...
We're not far off from the day when Amazon's Alexa voice assistant orders around Microsoft’s Cortana, and vice versa.
Two of the tech industry's biggest...
The violent protests of white supremacists and self-described neo-Nazis in response to the removal of a Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville have deeply shocked...
Virtual reality is no doubt today's most popular technological trend. From gaming, to healthcare, to television and even military training, countless industries are innovating with VR....
Sometimes a simple, innovative concept can completely change someone’s life for the better. At the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab’s Center for Bionic Medicine in Chicago, engineers have...
The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect...
With an incredible new project that blends biotechnology and body art, researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a tattoo ink that changes...
