Opioid crisis: ‘Drug companies lobbying contributed to demand among doctors’

Culture is contributing to the opioid crisis in the US; drug companies ease supply, and lobbying raised the demand from doctors, while they and patients were misled about the risks, law professor Richard Ausness told RT. Life expectancy in America has declined for the second year in a row, and figures show that powerful painkillers […]

A drug-resistant E. coli contributed to Hugh Hefner’s death — and it’s part of a terrifying global epidemic

Charley Gallay / Stringer / Getty Images Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner died last Wednesday at age 91 of two main causes — cardiac arrest (a sudden stopping of the heart) and a bacterial infection. The infection was triggered by E. coli, a common bacteria that is often survivable in adults but can cause complications […]

US contributed to ISIS creation, now tries to claim victory over it – Iraqi VP talks tough

The recapture of Mosul is an achievement of the Iraqi people while the US is trying to highjack it and claims it was them who “led that war,” Iraq’s Vice President Nouri al-Maliki has told the RIA Novosti news agency. “Yes, they supported us with aviation, but the main credit goes to the Iraqi soldiers, […]

How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness

Immigrants have helped generate some of America’s most beloved inventions. Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, helped develop the telephone. David Lindquist, a Swede, was the chief engineer at Otis, and pioneered the electric elevator. Herman Frasch, born in Germany, worked in America on a process that would become fracking. Countries don’t only welcome immigrants […]