Big pharma executive John Kapoor is on trial for his role in creating the opioid epidemic and if convicted faces up to 25 years in prison. For the first time, big pharma is being challenged ...
A “reverse migrant caravan” of Americans travel every day into Mexico for affordable health care. According to a report from TruthOut, thousands of Americans cross the border every day into Mexico to access affordable dental care ...
“In 10-15 years, we will be deep in a ‘war of the machines’ era with advances in artificial intelligence bringing fast and sophisticated execution of security defense and cybercrime.” Recent cybercrime has seen hackers threaten ...
Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. “Rene Markoff has spent the past several years wondering how she could have helped her daughter overcome her drug addiction. ...
The FBI is employing a new method to catch criminals: Amazon’s facial recognition software known as Rekognition. Using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon’s relatively new facial recognition software, allows the FBI to expedite sifting through surveillance footage ...
New research on Alzheimer’s and dementia looks to be a breakthrough moment for diagnosing and treating the disease. A team of researchers has found that blood leaking from brain vessels precedes the onset of Alzheimer’s. ...
Are e-cigarette liquid manufacturers outright lying about what’s in their products? A new report published Sunday in the Medical Journal of Australia found traces of pesticides, human or animal excrement and nicotine in popular nicotine-free ...
Amid the endless reporting about the situation at the US-Mexico border, the potential for a growing health crisis remains largely unreported. The large number of people in holding at the border greatly increases the odds ...
The first of dozens of lawsuits last scheduled for 2019 over the presence of talc in Johnson & Johnson baby powder began last week. Opening statements began last Monday in a lawsuit claiming that Johnson ...
In November of 2018, Marriott disclosed that its Starwood database was hacked, affecting about 383 million guests. Last Friday, Marriott International announced that its Starwood Hotel failed to encrypt passport numbers for approximately five million ...
In China a smile for the camera allows you to pay for goods, access your home or even use toilet paper. Facial recognition is being increasingly used across China and in its latest implementation is coming ...
“There’s just a lot of cost associated with the medical space, and it has become a very important category on GoFundMe.” According to numerous polls, one in four Americans report that the biggest worry they ...
The Navy was so keen on using the software that Navy software developers provided misleading information about the apps. The US Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) reported that two combat operation mapping applications the ...
“‘Virginity testing’ has no scientific or clinical basis. There is no examination that can prove a girl or woman has had sex.” “WHO, UN Human Rights and UN Women have today issued a statement calling ...
Apple currently employs about 90,000 people in the United States. About 6,000 of those employees are already in Austin, with thousands more to come. As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas, and now ...
“As with all mass surveillance tools, it is the general public who suffer more than criminals.” To the outrage of privacy advocates, London’s Metropolitan Police deployed facial recognition software Monday and Tuesday to scan faces ...
A new lawsuit claims Illinois keeps children in psychiatric facilities for up to five months longer than is deemed medically necessary. A federal class-action lawsuit was filed against the state of Illinois for holding 15 ...
“Any rep who doesn’t sign is making it clear that they don’t really support net neutrality, and would rather take money from big telecom companies than side with the overwhelming majority of voters from across ...
This is how President Donald Trump played 4D chess and was able to eliminate Obamacare despite Congress’s attempt to stop him. After the late Sen. John McCain made his historic vote to save Obamacare, many ...
For over 50 years, Johnson & Johnson has been facing countless lawsuits over claims that its iconic Baby Powder caused cancer. The company has repeatedly refuted these claims in courts and in the media. But ...
As Thailand moves to pass medical marijuana, foreign businesses threaten to push local Thai businesses out of the new market. Medical marijuana may soon become a reality in Thailand. With the legalization, the country would ...
“In today’s era of ‘big data,’ Americans are using the internet every day without fully understanding the consequences of every click.” On Wednesday, 15 U.S. senators proposed the Data Care Act, wanting to change the ...
“This is most likely the largest cartel in the history of the United States.” The Connecticut Attorney General’s office is heading an explosive investigation into coordinated drug price-fixing among at least 16 generic drug manufacturers ...
“An opioid that is a thousand times more powerful than morphine is a thousand times more likely to be abused and a thousand times more likely to kill,” – MA Senator Ed Markey. Despite the ...
Does California’s vaccine requirement infringe on the right to privacy or freedom of religion? A California Court of Appeals has rejected the claims that schoolchildren can be exempted from vaccination on religious grounds. The appellate ...
In a series of stunning allegations, three women have accused scientist and celebrity Neil deGrasse Tyson of sexual assault. Freelance journalist David G. McAfee spoke to the women who made the accusations. Dr. Katelyn N. ...
The reaction from the professional community of scientists and ethicists was swift and essentially universal in its condemnation, including by over 100 of He’s colleagues in China. (The Conversation, by G. Owen Schaefer, National University ...
“This is what you’re killing,” James Cromwell said of the dead piglets. “Do you want to do this? As a country, as a people, … as Christians, do you want to do this?” Animal rights ...
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, animals rights activists and one of the biggest turkey farms in the U.S. found reason to celebrate together. Turkey farming giant Norbest has released 100 turkeys in the spirit of ...
A new study published by toxicologists called for the ban of organophosphates (OP), a class of chemicals found in pesticides. The study found organophosphates are linked to brain damage in children and claimed that exposure ...
Merck is ending an agreement to supply a life-saving virus to low-income countries at reduced costs due to supply issues, but will begin selling the vaccine to China. Pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. has ...
In November the UN will review marijuana’s drug status, a move that prompted the FDA asked the public for comments on marijuana and the potential impact of reclassifying marijuana’s drug status. Who says the federal ...
Your beloved pet Fido and Garfield may be consuming glyphosate, but at levels researchers deem safe. According to a new study, researchers from Cornell University found that glyphosate is present in cat and dog foods. ...
Twenty percent of crops harvested in Brazil between 2013 and 2015 were not safe for human consumption because of a high concentration of pesticides. A Brazilian study published in the journal Chemosphere links colon cancer ...
Is deep brain stimulation a new way of treating severe cases of autism? Rebecca “Becky” Audette is one of five autistic individuals to undergo a treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in an attempt to control repetitive, ...
More companies are using ‘uninstall tracking.’ Many app developers now track users even after users have uninstalled their apps, and the tracking allows companies to continue to serve targeted ads. Bloomberg first reported on this ...
In an attempt to maintain control of prices and hold their monopoly, Apple restricts their customers to “authorized” repair shops that simply advise those customers to purchase a new device when their devices are damaged, ...
“Thus, the jury could conclude that Monsanto acted with malice by consciously disregarding a probable safety risk.” After much speculation that a San Francisco Superior Court could overturn last August’s landmark verdict against Monsanto (now ...
The Australian government has issued a public apology to women, acknowledging the pain and agony that has resulted from vaginal mesh implants. Thousands of women across the world have used the mesh, which most of ...
Finding an HIV cure has always proven difficult because of a viral reservoir of HIV cells that is untreatable by antiretroviral drugs, but Spanish doctors may have discovered a solution. Doctors believe six people afflicted with ...
The limits of machine learning were realized when Amazon tried to build an AI engine to screen for the top talent in a pool of job applicants. Amazon wanted an automated process for screening job ...
A new observational study by a Harvard professor will look at whether marijuana suppositories can help relieve menstrual symptoms. Foria is a California based startup that develops marijuana products for women including a marijuana suppository ...
A massive data breach of Google+ has prompted Google to shut down the largely unsuccessful social platform. Google got hacked and didn’t tell anyone, at least according to documents discovered by a new Wall Street ...
Cops in Vancouver can smoke pot – the policy represents one of the more lax marijuana policies in Western Canada. In a rejection of a 24-hour abstinence period, the Vancouver Police Board revealed it is okay for ...
In today’s hyperpartisan atmosphere, the opioid crisis may be the one issue both parties can work together on. In 2017, opioid overdose deaths totaled more than the number of people killed in the entire Vietnam ...
The new California net neutrality law bars internet companies from blocking or slowing consumers from accessing content and from favoring the content of high-profile companies. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a statewide net neutrality law ...
FBI records indicated the facility was temporarily closed to investigate the use of the observatory’s wireless internet service for child pornography. The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, was inexplicably closed to the public ...
A process known as epidural stimulation helped three out of five paralysis patients independently walk again. Two separate studies, both published on Monday, reported successful cases of total paralysis patients recovering walking ability after receiving ...