Kate Farms, the supplier of a plant-based liquid meal formula used by hospitals and healthcare providers around the country as a nutritional supplement for patients who cannot process solid foods, has raised $23 million in a round of funding.
The new money will allow the company to ramp up its production as it looks to meet significant new demand from both consumers and healthcare providers, according to chairman and chief executive, Brett Matthews.
With its promise of taming the ravages of stomach acid, ranitidine—best known under the brand name Zantac—was counted among the agents of pharmaceutical salvation, the enduring and reliable drugs that treat intractable diseases and make daily life more tolerable. In 1987, Zantac became the most-prescribed drug in the world.
But last week ranitidine was essentially erased from the US market. The US Food and Drug Administration asked manufacturers to withdraw ranitidine products, both in prescription and over-the-counter forms, because of an “impurity” in the pharmaceutical compound. Overtime or in the presence of heat, ranitidine can form unacceptable levels of a probable carcinogen known as N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, the agency determined.
The world is flattening (figuratively) as international trade is easier than ever and more people speak English than ever. But just because doing business in English is widely possible, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn a new language. There are a number of reasons why entrepreneurs owe it to themselves to learn a new language.
Plus, with your social calendar nonexistent for the time being and great deals on language learning software and apps popping up (like this lifetime subscription to Babbel for 60 percent off), there’s never been a better time to try it out.
There is no need to emphasize the importance of growing audience at this point. Not only did online presence become a must, it also became an important sales channel for many businesses. Unfortunately, the competition for customers’ attention is getting more fierce each day. Advertising costs are hiking up. Algorithms are changing.
It seems like all businesses online are being taught to grow an audience the same way. So how can businesses grow their audience online in an unconventional way? 5 experts will share unconventional ways to build your audience online.
There is a large disparity between the survival rates of prematurely born babies in the developing world and those in the developed world, but scientists at Northwestern University are working on ways to bridge the gap. This has led to the development of new kind of wireless sensor that can be worn on the skin to track vital signs both in babies and pregnant mothers, with the technology to be tested on thousands of subjects over the next couple of years.
The research builds on earlier work from the same scientists who last year demonstrated a new type of soft, flexible sensor designed to replace the wired systems that monitor babies in intensive care. Typically, these involve electrodes placed on the baby’s skin to track blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, heartbeat and other vital signs, but the team found they could obtain data with the same accuracy using wireless versions instead.
We love a good concept tire here at New Atlas. Incremental improvements aside, the wheel-to-road interface has been more or less stagnant since Goodyear rolled out the first commercial tubeless tire some 66 years ago. Now, the same company has proposed a radically different design with the new age of electric mobility in mind.
Electric cars, of course, will theoretically need very little in the way of maintenance. There’s no oil changes or belts or timing chains to do, and regenerative braking does the lion’s share of the stopping work, so even your brake pads will rarely need changing. Tires, on the other hand, will still require you to take your car to a workshop and wait around as they’re being changed. In the age of instant gratification, this might start feeling like an anachronism.
The South by Southwest Film Festival is back on — just not exactly in the way it was originally planned.
SXSW announced Thursday that it has partnered with Amazon Prime Video to launch an online version of the 2020 festival, which had been canceled in March due to the coronavirus.
Said Janet Pierson, SXSW’s Director of Film, in a press release:
Even though the company was bleeding money, laden with debt and staring down a potential bankruptcy, becoming chief executive of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices was a dream job for Lisa Su.
“When you grow up as a tech person — and I spent my career in semiconductors — there aren’t that many large US semiconductor companies. So I was really excited to become CEO,” Su told CNN Business. She liked that she could walk around a Best Buy and pick up a laptop, knowing that the microchip or processor her company built was powering it.
Not everyone would have been so enthusiastic. When Su took the helm of AMD in 2014, its stock was heading toward an all-time low.
From the comfort and safety of your own home, you can now explore Walt Disney World all by yourself.
Although all Disney parks worldwide are currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, aerial images of the empty parks at Walt Disney World in Florida offer a unique opportunity to explore their world-famous attractions like never before.
Have you ever wanted to stroll solo down Main Street? Be the only citizen of tomorrow in Tomorrowland? Take a private, adrenaline-fueled tour of Space Mountain?
“Collaboration” has become one of the most common words in the workplace; companies of all sizes are encouraging employees to work together. But unless the leaders are committed to developing collaboration, their employees won’t ever reap the benefits. A truly collaborative workplace is more than just talk; it’s something employees feel. Effective collaboration inspires a sense of community within the workplace while increasing insight, productivity and innovation.
