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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Aug-2025 16:10 ET (19-Aug-2025 20:10 GMT/UTC)

16-Jul-2025

Innovation Crossroads welcomes six entrepreneurs for Cohort 2025

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The 2025 Innovation Crossroads cohort brings together six entrepreneurs who will collaborate with ORNL to accelerate advancements in energy and emerging technologies that strengthen U.S. competitiveness and regional economic growth.

16-Jul-2025

The ultra-wealthy’s concealment of finances offshore is influenced by politics at home

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study reveals how political conditions in the home countries of ultra-wealthy elites may influence their strategies for concealing their finances offshore. Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Brooke Harrington and Daniel Rockmore from Dartmouth College, U.S., present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on July 16, 2025

Journal: PLOS One

16-Jul-2025

Private health industry lobby group uses marketing and publicity strategies similar to Big Tobacco and other unhealthy commodity industry groups

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The private health industry lobby group “Partnership for America’s Health Care Future” engages in marketing and publicity strategies similar to Big Tobacco and other unhealthy commodity industry groups to shape public perception of universal health care policies as negative in the United States, according to a study published July 16, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health by Kendra Chow from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Global Public Health

16-Jul-2025

The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore

Dartmouth College
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Billionaires, oligarchs, and other members of the uber rich, known as "elites," are notorious for use of offshore financial systems to conceal their assets and mask their identities. Understanding the transnational offshore finance networks that they utilize has long been a challenge given the secrecy involved. But a new Dartmouth study reveals there are distinct patterns associated with the offshore system, which are specific to where a wealthy person comes from.

Journal: PLOS One

16-Jul-2025

Projected health system and economic impacts of 2025 Medicaid policy proposals

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This analysis indicates that proposed Medicaid reforms would have far-reaching consequences beyond federal budget savings, including negative health outcomes, economic losses, and health care system disruptions, with rural and underserved communities disproportionately affected.

Journal: JAMA Health Forum

16-Jul-2025

Dr. Jennifer Ashton and Dr. Joseph Woo join American Heart Association Board of Directors

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

The American Heart Association announces the appointment of two leading health and science leaders, Jennifer Ashton, M.D., M.S. and Joseph Woo, M.D., FAHA, to its volunteer Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2025.

16-Jul-2025

Brexit: is it farewell to capital? The UK has turned off the tap for EU startups. Europe still invests across the channel

Politecnico di Milano
Peer-Reviewed Publication

After Brexit, London slowed down investments in Europe. While Europe continues to focus on the United Kingdom. A recent study in Research Policy, co-authored by Vincenzo Butticè, Annalisa Croce and Andrea Odille Bosio from the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, and Simone Signore and Andrea Crisanti of the European Investment Fund (EIF) shows these findings.

Journal: Research Policy