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As a physician-turned investor, Dr. Sunny Kumar looks at the booming digital health market with the discernible eye of a clinician. “The reality is private markets got a little bit exuberant in the last year for a variety of different reasons and we will likely see some degree of market correction,” Kumar says to Digital…
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Metro Detroit hospitals are the most racially segregated in the country, according to a new study released Thursday by healthcare think tank Lown Institute. Researchers studied more than 2,800 hospitals in the U.S. using Medicare claims and the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey from 2020 to determine the racial makeup of patients at each…
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Skies across southwestern Europe turned orange this week as an exceptional Saharan dust episode blanketed the region and the dust moved northwards to reach as far as the UK, Denmark and Russia. Concentrations of particulate matter were exceptionally high. As the large plume travelled across the Iberian peninsula, a sharp rise was recorded in inhalable…
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This article is an on-site version of our Moral Money newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Visit our Moral Money hub for all the latest ESG news, opinion and analysis from around the FT Hello from New York, where we were happy to see the return of the…
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Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorize a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults. The request is broader than rival pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s request earlier this week for the regulator to approve a booster shot for all seniors. In a press release, the…
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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis…
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The International Energy Agency has called for member countries to adopt “emergency measures” to cut oil demand in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including driving restrictions, lower speed limits and curbs on air travel. Fatih Birol, head of the energy watchdog, on Friday warned that such steps might be necessary because “oil markets…
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Big City Accounting firms Desert Russia and Belarus. Not terribly surprising but the attraction of large Russian and Belarusian cheques seems to have been eclipsed by the potential reputational damage in dealing with Mr. Putin’s somewhat grubby and dishonest regime which seems to have no moral compass whatsoever. In this the big four consultancy firms…
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Australia’s competition regulator has taken Meta to court for allegedly allowing misleading cryptocurrency advertisements on Facebook, in a test case for the parent group’s responsibilities over actions that cause consumer harm on the social media platform. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleged that Meta was in breach of consumer and investment laws and the…
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