North Carolina state law lacks consequences for the WNC hospital. Mission supervisor acknowledges “ongoing issues.” ...

Seoul Bumin Hospital (Hospital Director Ha Yong-chan) announced that it achieved a 35.6% reduction in the use of medical ...

A new study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO) calls for urgent action to limit plastic waste in these essential diagnostic tools. Researchers from Heriot-Watt University ...

When you think about surgery, the environment probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. But for pediatric surgeon ...

Republicans in Congress have made a lot of noise about eliminating “waste and fraud” in federal health-care spending. If they ...

Arun T. Mathews, M.D., describes working with Illumicare on cost containment alerts in the medication and lab ordering space ...

Urine colors can change with a person’s health and habits, as well as a urinary tract infection or eating certain foods. Clear urine may mean they drink too much water, while dark brown urine ...

Patients probably aren’t thinking about what happens to their medical waste, but healthcare facilities are. All healthcare facilities must meet some key compliance standards if they want to avoid ...

Kochi: The Thrikkakara municipality imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 on a Bengaluru-based firm's franchise in the district for trying to illegally dispose of medical waste near the civic body's ...

From recyclable materials to hazardous material waste and a lack of efficient composting, all of this has accumulated to a shocking amount of electronic, medical waste, plastic, and glass in landfills ...

Similarly, hospitals adopting bioplastics on a larger scale could significantly reduce medical plastic waste in the long run. While there's still much to do, the growing availability of bioplastics ...