Science & Society

Global Health Care Is 1 Percent Of Domestic Health Spending

Global health funding hit an all-time high of $31.3 billion in 2013, five times greater than in 1990, but its 3.9% growth from 2012 to 2013 shows it is at least slowing down a little, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Eva ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 3:00am

Pop Music Implicated In Teenage Drinking

Scholars from the University of Pittsburgh and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center are associating binge drinking in both adults and teens with liking, owning and identifying a certain kind of music. The weak observational results are publishe ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 6:19pm

ACA Ripple Effect: Auto, Malpractice And Other Insurance Will Go Up Also

The mandate for health insurance isn't just raising the costs for the health care of almost all Americans,  it will also alter costs for several major types of liability insurance, according to a new RAND Corporation report. Automobile, workers' ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 1:30am

Does Your Insurance Cover Terrorism?

If religiously-motivated terrorists attack, they may claim it is an Act of God. You had better hope your insurance company does not. To insurance companies, an act of God is any event not influenced by man and minimum coverage often does not include it. B ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 10:56am

Off-Shore Tax Evasion Is Talked About But How Widespread Is It?

The IRS and the Recording Industry Association of America share one thing in common; if they ever actually collected all of the estimated money they claim they are owed, they could buy a small country with it. With the RIAA, they always made piracy projec ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2014 - 8:54am

Medical Liability Isn't The Biggest Hidden Health Cost In America- But It's Big

Depending on how a topic is framed, people quickly change their minds when the discussion is about medical liability. If the scenario is presented as 'Doctor X was incompetent and did Y' the perception is that incompetent people should have to p ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 4:51pm

When It Comes To Food, Do You Trust Science Or A Yogic Flying Instructor?

Professional forester and writer Norm Benson recently got a healthy dose of anti-science environmentalism, because he wrote an article endorsing a vitamin-enriched bowl of rice that, nonetheless, is protested by Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists an ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2014 - 4:27pm

Time Dilation In Nobel Prize Awards

Before 1940, Nobel Prizes were a reflection of the rapidly evolving state of science. It was uncommon for an award to happen for a discovery 20 years or more after the research happened, it seemed more like a concession prize because nothing had happened ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2014 - 7:21pm

Newspapers Often Mirror The Views Of Political Elites- Study

To a high degree, newspapers mirror the viewpoints of the political elite, a bolster to the 'elite-driven media' theory about editorial viewpoints, according to a new analysis in thejournal Media, War&Conflict. The scholars from the Universi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2014 - 9:38am

Labiaplasty: Porn-Driven Procedure?

A cosmetic surgical procedure to alter women's genitals is rising in popularity thanks in part to the porn industry, even as many questions loom about unknown medical and social consequences. Labiaplasty involves “trimming” or reshaping the labia min ...

Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - Apr 11 2014 - 11:24pm