Tens of thousands of metric tons of extra medical waste as hospitals and clinics scrambled to care for the millions struck with the COVID-19 virus has put tremendous strain on health-care waste ...

Walking down the streets of Taipei, you might not know that the country was once known as Garbage Island. About 30 years ago, 30% of Taiwan’s trash was left to litter the streets or burned away, ...

Reprinted with permission from Birmingham Medical News (November 2022). In August 2022, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) published proposed changes to its rules for public ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has produced tens of thousands of tons of extra health care waste ...

Administrative spending accounts for 15–30 percent of health care spending. The US spends more on health care administration than comparable countries. At least half of administrative spending is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This is the first in a four-part series on the Health Affairs Council on ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. health-care system squanders $750 billion a year - roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar - through unneeded care, Byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sys its calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule reduces waste and unnecessary use of skin substitutes and introduces ...

Gabriella Marfe and Carla Di Stefano's new book is essential treatise on the issues envornmental health and waste management. Many of us have concerns about the pollution round the globe, but we often ...

Healthcare waste segregation works when packaging makes the safest choice easy; mapping streams and designing clear cues cuts ...

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) for the South-East Asia Region, has rolled out a Certificate in Health Care Waste Management ...