Biomedicine & Biotech

Whole Foods lies. A lot.*

By Bianca Heyward

A company made grand pronouncements about revolutionizing cancer treatment claiming their discovery is so disruptive that, according to its

Last week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) featured a number of health and healthcare-related devices and apps. A few caught my eye because they are the Lego bricks for a Lego building that is just appearing on the event horizon.

What drives innovation? After all, innovation is how we feed more with less and enhance and extend our lives. Is improvement something we can control by who and how we organize research and implementation?

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ### 

In an announcement of no surprise, the U.S.

By Dr. Ingrid Pultz

One of these beliefs is not like the other: The moon landing was faked. 9/11 was an inside job. Vaccines cause autism.

By Matthew Motta, University of Pennsylvania;