Author: Erin Elizabeth

Good news for all you wine drinkers on this halfway point through the week: according to a long-term study, booze beats exercise if you want to make it into your 90s! (You probably don’t need to do anything else but celebrate that truth for the rest of the day!) RELATED STORY: Cannabis-Infused Wine – What’s In Store For The Future? “The research, led by University of California neurologist Claudia Kawas, tracked 1,700 nonagenarians enrolled in the 90+ Study that began in 2003 to explore impacts of daily habits on longevity. Researchers discovered that subjects who drank about two glasses of...

Last year, around this same time, scientists announced that they had created the first “successful human-animal hybrid” 3thereby establishing that human cells could be “introduced into a non-human organism (in this case a pig), survive, and grow inside a host animal.”4 And so, building on that previous work, scientists are busy creating yet again, but this time it’s a sheep-human hybrid embryo. By “introducing human stem cells into sheep embryos”5the team was able to create a “hybrid creature that’s more than 99 percent sheep”6 but also a little bit human (which is what is so controversal about this experiment). The findings were presented last...

In late 2015, Elizabeth Moreno had back surgery and her surgeon prescribed an opioid painkiller. The painkiller wasn’t out of the norm, especially for short-term use. The follow-up drug test he ordered seemed a bit odd but she didn’t think a thing of it until she got a bill a year later from Sunset Labs, LLC asking for over $17,000. (Sunset Labs is part of a network of pain clinics and other medical businesses founded by Houston anesthesiologist Phillip C. Phan and according to court records, Phan’s companies also own the facility where Moreno had her operation.) RELATED STORY: OxyContin...