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Juul Reaches $462 Million Settlement With New York, California and Other States

  • April 12, 2023
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New York, California and several other states announced a $462 million settlement with Juul Labs on Wednesday, resolving lawsuits claiming that the company aggressively marketed its e-cigarettes to young people and fueled a vaping crisis. The agreement brings many of the company’s legal woes to a conclusion, with settlements reached with 47 states and territories, […]

The UK is about to build its largest-ever grid-scale battery

  • April 12, 2023
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Battery maker Invinity Energy Systems has been awarded £11 million ($13.7 million) by the British government to build the UK’s largest-ever grid-scale battery storage. The grid-scale battery storage project will feature Invinity’s Vanadium Flow Battery technology, which provides long-duration, nondegrading energy storage and is ideal for the management of renewable energy systems. Invinity asserts that […]

Volkswagen ID.7 flagship electric sedan full specs and images leaked

  • April 12, 2023
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Sedans are making a comeback. Volkswagen’s all-new upper midsize electric ID.7 sedan has finally shown its face without camouflage. Ahead of its world premiere on Monday, April 17, in China, the full details and images of VW’s fully electric ID.7 saloon have emerged. The new ID.7 is based on VW’s modular electric drive matrix (MEB) […]

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Diabetes company Glooko partners with insulin dosing app Hedia

  • April 12, 2023
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Diabetes management company Glooko is partnering with Copenhagen-based Hedia to integrate its app into Glooko’s remote monitoring platform.  The Hedia Diabetes Assistant allows patients to input their blood glucose, meals and activity levels and provides bolus insulin dosing recommendations. Under the partnership, the app will integrate with Glooko’s platform, which lets patients share diabetes data […]

Can we do more with clinical audit to prevent NHS data silos?

  • April 12, 2023
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Could linking clinical audit studies with other datasets provide new insights as NHS organisations work to improve services for patients? Martin Dean, CaseCapture system architect, asks the question. I was recently asked if it would be possible to highlight NHS trusts that had been affected by ransomware, within a national clinical audit. NHS cyber-attacks were […]

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Remote care management platform MedArrive raises $8M

  • April 12, 2023
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MedArrive, a care management platform that merges telehealth and in-person care, announced it received an $8 million strategic investment from Cobalt Ventures, a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City subsidiary.  The round brings the company’s total raise to $40.5 million. WHAT IT DOES MedArrive offers a provider network of paramedics, EMTs and other […]

Here’s the inflation breakdown for March 2023 — in one chart

  • April 12, 2023
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South_agency | E+ | Getty Images Inflation continued to retreat in March as energy prices pulled back from a year ago, when they began to spike due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But swings in gasoline and other energy mask price pressures that, while easing, remain under the surface, economists said. “It’s improving and the economy […]

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NHS England launches extended reality training to support perinatal mental health learners – htn

  • April 12, 2023
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NHS England has launched a new immersive method of training to support healthcare learners to expand their skills when interacting with people with perinatal mental health problems. Using extended reality (XR) technology, learners are taken through a series of instructor-driven simulations, to interact with a virtual patient. The patient avatar Stacey was developed by Health Education […]

Tesla delivers a new fleet of Tesla Semi electric trucks to PepsiCo

  • April 12, 2023
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Tesla has delivered a new fleet of up to 21 Tesla Semi electric trucks to PepsiCo as the automaker slowly ramps up the much-delayed vehicle program. Tesla unveiled the production version of its Tesla Semi class 8 electric truck and delivered the first units in December. It came after years of delays in the program. Reservation […]