The past several months have been trying for the $2 billion-a-year compounding pharmacy industry. First, it was a multi-state meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center (NECC). The outbreak, due to unsanitary conditions at NECC, has sickened 730 people, killing more than 50 – and six months later, people continue to fall ill. Investigators examined foreign materials from unopened...

By now, we’ve all read the story. We’ve seen the interviews and heard the voicemails. Some believe Manti Te’o is the naïve victim of an incredibly elaborate hoax. Others firmly hold he helped to create the scheme to quell questions about his personal life or to gain Heisman votes. Regardless of Te’o’s level of involvement, a closer examination of the situation outlines the failings of Notre Dame and the national media –...

When infamously snarky New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells skewered Guy Fieri’s new Times Square restaurant last week, the controversy went viral. Sarcastic questions targeting the quality of food and Fieri’s personality with harsh, punishing phrasing fill Wells’s review of the restaurant. Line after line of well-written negativity details the critic’s awful experience. Wells includes vicious quips such as, “Somewhere...

Last week, Google’s third quarter earnings report was released early.  The report surprised investors not only because of its advanced arrival, but also because it showed lower profits than the same quarter last year. The information caused a frenzy among investors, and Google’s stock dropped by around nine percent Thursday. Google might have hoped to make headlines Thursday with the release of the new Chromebook, but the earnings...

Yelp. Amazon. TripAdvisor. I don’t know about you, but these days, I religiously check online product and business reviews before trying anything new. What does Urbanspoon have to say about the quality of that hole-in-the-wall Thai restaurant down the street?  Where can I find a clean, inexpensive hotel room in South Beach? Which laptop do the masses recommend I buy? The Internet has fundamentally changed the way that buyers and sellers...