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 ...

Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The COVID pandemic is not just a public health crisis. It is also an environmental one. After more than 430 million reported cases of the disease around the world, the pandemic has generated huge ...

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 ...

Counties in the Rift Valley region are struggling to manage infectious medical waste amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of the counties do not have standard incinerators to manage the waste. Laikipia ...

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 ...