Gilberto thought he knew pain until he experienced the agony of withdrawal from xylazine, an animal tranquilliser used as a cutting agent in the more lethal drugs supplied by cartels to addicts in America. “I’ve been shot before and beaten but this really makes me cry,” said Gilberto. The 44-year-old homeless drug user trembles as…
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Kaiser Permanente will invest $10 million in a Colorado safety-net hospital, the latest example of large health systems partnering with smaller organizations struggling to manage rising expenses. The Oakland, California-based integrated health system will give a $5 million grant to Denver Health and another $5 million in matching funds if area organizations or other health systems financially support…
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Europe’s electric car industry received a significant fillip in its efforts to secure raw material supplies after Portuguese authorities gave a green-light to what will be one of the continent’s first large-scale lithium mines. London-listed Savannah Resources said on Wednesday that the Portuguese regulator has issued a positive declaration of environmental impact for its Barroso…
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Foxconn forecasts its AI server business will at least double in the second half of this year, making the world’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer — best known for making the iPhone — the latest beneficiary of the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT. “We could see triple-digit growth in AI servers…
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This article is an on-site version of our Europe Express newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday and Saturday morning Good morning. Violent unrest in Kosovo has gone from bad to worse, with Nato sending in an extra 700 peacekeeping troops after dozens were injured (and three…
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OptumRx launched initiatives designed to expand the services available at community and rural pharmacies amid a looming legislative crackdown on pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices. The PBM, which is owned by UnitedHealth Group, will work with pharmacies in seven states to connect pregnant women and patients with diabetes with housing, transportation and food support, the…
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States must take better care not to expel eligible Medicaid enrollees from the program during the redeterminations process, a senior Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services official said Tuesday. States resumed reviewing their Medicaid rolls last month to identify beneficiaries whose incomes are too high to qualify after suspending redeterminations during the COVID-19 pandemic. In…
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A growing number of Highmark Health employees is submitting complaints about workplace bias, which the head of the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs sees as good news. Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, chief clinical diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for the Pittsburgh-based integrated health system, launched its Enterprise Equitable Health Institute in 2021. Her team developed…
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The writer is an adviser to fintech companies and a former financials research analyst Mega market cap stocks are eating their indices, distorting their usefulness in some cases as market gauges for investors. The most widely used index in the world is the S&P 500, which is supposed to be a broad barometer of the…
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