This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter and is usually available only with a Premium subscription. Are you currently a Standard subscriber? Click here to switch your subscription to Premium. Not yet a subscriber? You can take out a Premium subscription here Compared to the conventional ground warfare now under way, Ukraine’s…
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Even before Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine on Thursday, western governments were struggling with rising energy prices that threatened to derail economies emerging from two years of pandemic. Vladimir Putin’s aggression could now turn that threat into a reality. From crude oil to diesel to natural gas, the fossil fuels that power the global economy…
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Proposed changes to the UK government’s approvals process for energy infrastructure, such as new power stations and wind farms, fail to provide the “step change” needed to meet net zero targets, MPs have warned. A review by the House of Commons business, energy and industrial strategy select committee said the draft of the new legal…
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A US judge has ruled that Johnson & Johnson can proceed with a controversial bankruptcy strategy to help it manage almost 40,000 legal claims that its baby talc causes cancer. Claimants had sought to dismiss the bankruptcy case by J&J subsidiary LTL Management and lift a stay on thousands of personal injury lawsuits, arguing that…
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This week, Teladoc Health and Amwell—two of the largest telehealth companies—posted gains in their revenue for 2021, building on a spike experienced in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, Boston-based Amwell reported $252.8 million in full-year revenue, up 3.1% (from $245.3 million) and 69.8% (from $148.9 million) in 2020 and 2019, respectively.…
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The US’s biggest offshore wind lease sale has attracted record bids of more than $4bn, outstripping any oil and gas auction in American waters, as renewable energy developers compete to secure a prime location to install turbines. The federal government auction of 488,000 acres in the Atlantic Ocean near New York and New Jersey had…
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It’s no shock to anyone reading this that there is an affordability crisis in American healthcare. And while much of the focus is rightly centered on the cost of services, how those services are paid for also is a factor that influences the pocketbook pressures consumers face every day. The COVID pandemic continues to spotlight…
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Marcus Whitney stands out in Nashville’s $95 billion healthcare sector as an investor in startups. In addition to co-founding a venture capital firm, he’s organized an annual health tech conference and co-founded the city’s professional soccer club. And, often, he’s the only Black man in the room. So in summer 2020, as Black Lives Matter…
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Scientists had an astoundingly productive 2021. The Food and Drug Administration fully approved more than 50 new drugs—one of the best years on record—and granted emergency use authorization to numerous other therapies, including antiviral pills that reduce the risk of death from COVID-19 by up to 89%. Those COVID therapeutics and vaccines generated the biggest…
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