Custom-crafted flexible orthotics provider Foot Levelers has announced that Jamie Greenawalt was named president, effective immediately. The appointment builds on Greenwalt’s recent responsibilities as senior vice president of business development and decades of experience at Foot Levelers overseeing customer support, technology, marketing, sales and educational development. Greenawalt has also served the World Bank in Washington […]
Automotive safety and autonomy specialist Luminar Technologies announced that EV automaker Polestar intends to deepen its partnership with the former by implementing its long-range Iris lidar into the upcoming Polestar 5, based on the Precept concept. Additionally, the automaker has enabled consumers pre-ordering a Polestar 3 SUV to add the Luminar lidar to their configuration […]
Residents fetch water from a well contaminated by oil pollution at Ogale Town, Eleme in southeast Nigeria, on June 13, 2015. Afp Contributor | Afp | Getty Images Over 13,000 residents from two Nigerian communities are seeking damages from Shell in the High Court in London, calling for the energy giant to clean up residual […]
The battery pack of an Audi e-tron is seen being ejected from the electric SUV in a crash caught on video in British Columbia this week. Electric vehicles are starting to become the highest safety-rated vehicles tested by agencies around the world as automakers are starting to understand how to take advantage of things like […]
A team of researchers in the US has developed a new method for the early diagnosis and monitoring of lupus nephritis at home. The researchers at the University of Houston used lateral flow test technology to assess lupus nephritis, or inflammation of the kidneys, one of the most severe complications for patients with systemic lupus […]
A home in Cochran colonia in Texas. Photograph: Justin Hamel/Courtesy DigDeep Community health workers are stepping in to provide critical services and information in rural areas with few hospitals or doctors by Amber X Chen When Claudia Salazar and her family migrated to San Elizario, Since 2019, Salazar has worked as a promotora herself, on […]
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has partnered with Microsoft to deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and a Microsoft Azure data platform. By introducing the data platform CQC aims to “enable the CQC team to focus on driving improvements for the providers it assesses” and help the organisation become more agile. An example comes from […]
It’s time for another news in brief and as always there has been plenty happening in the health tech community… NHS Transformation Directorate and Digital Social Care create training for information sharing NHS Transformation Directorate has been working alongside Digital Social Care in developing new e-learning sessions to help social care staff better understand principles […]
Shell said last month that windfall taxes imposed by the European Union and U.K. following the surge in profits would cost the group about $2 billion. Paul Ellis | Afp | Getty Images British oil giant 2 days ago Analysts polled by Refinitiv had expected full-year 2022 net profit to come in at $38.3 billion. […]
Greenwashing should be seen as a positive sign that companies are moving in the right direction, according to the founder of British energy firm Ecotricity. “It’s everywhere,” Dale Vince told CNBC’s Tania Bryer in a recent interview. “But you know, I take it as a good thing. People say to me, ‘oh, there’s greenwashing, it’s […]
