Internet collectibles ranging from cartoon apes to artsy doodles have plunged in value as real-world conflict and a broader cryptocurrency slump begins to unwind one of the past year’s biggest speculative frenzies. Digital items known as non-fungible tokens burst into mainstream culture last year, as several animal collections including Bored Ape Yacht Club, Cool Cats…
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GlaxoSmithKline: shingle minded Worried about shingles? GlaxoSmithKline is. The drugmaker last month launched UK Shingles Awareness Week — its own invention in partnership with the International Federation on Ageing. TV and social media ads urge over-50s to speak to a healthcare professional. Eamonn Holmes, the TV presenter, has been recruited as an ambassador. GSK’s urgency…
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Shares in Amazon-backed electric vehicle maker Rivian slid late on Thursday after the company warned supply chain problems would halve its production capability to 25,000 units this year. Rivian told investors the supply chain would be a “fundamental limiting factor” and predicted its production potential had dropped from what could have been 50,000 vehicles in…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to establish minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes within a year, agency officials told industry representatives Thursday. There’s no timeline yet for all of the more than 20 other initiatives President Joe Biden proposed during the State of the Union address last week, the officials said during…
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The percentage of medical liability insurance premiums with year-to-year increases has surged for the third year in a row, a trend that could negatively affect independent providers who have experienced relatively low rates and a soft market for roughly the past 20 years. While the proportion of medical liability premiums with annual increases was somewhat…
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Critical-access hospitals warn that they will no longer be able to bill Medicare for telehealth services when the public health emergency ends after they were excluded from the government spending bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passed Wednesday. The $1.5 trillion package would extend Medicare coverage of telehealth for five months after the end of the public…
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Critical Access Hospitals warn that they will no longer be able to bill Medicare for telehealth services when the public health emergency ends after they were excluded from the government spending bill that passed the House Wednesday. The $1.5 trillion package will extend Medicare coverage of telehealth for five months after the end of the…
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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 President Biden’s wide-ranging executive order on the crypto industry issued…
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The owner of West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Uptown is looking to sell the facilities after a contentious ownership tenure that early on resulted in the controversial closing of Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park. Los Angeles-based Pipeline Health has signed a letter of intent to sell the two…
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If you walk down Northumberland Avenue in central London on a hot summer’s day, you’ll be basking in the shade of London plane trees (Platanus hispanica) planted in 1876. As well as improving the appearance of this historical street, these trees help with storm water attenuation, store carbon, improve air quality, provide shade for humans…
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