As India builds a future ready healthcare ecosystem, the silent burden of biomedical waste demands urgent, coordinated ...

Health care facilities that provide a host of health care-related services or distribute, ... The new rule revises management standards for hazardous waste pharmaceuticals (HWPs) ...

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines waste in US health care. Estimates are that more than a third of annual US health spending may be ...

Healthcare waste management refers to waste generated from health care facilities, hospitals, laboratories and other diagnostic facilities.

Companies in business sectors as diverse as transportation, industrial, hospitality, department stores, home care, and cleaning services have faced penalties for improper disposal of medical waste ...

A 10-Step Blueprint for Managing Pharmaceutical Waste in US Healthcare Facilities (2022 Edition) (“Blueprint”) The primary author of the Blueprint is Charlotte Smith of GreatWorks, LLC.

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has produced tens of thousands of tons of extra health care waste that many facilities are not equipped to handle, according to WHO.In a recent report ...

Hazardous waste includes substances that are solids, liquids and gases. The EPA definition of hazardous waste includes substances that possess a hazardous characteristic (e.g. toxic, ignitable, ...

Waste can include spending on services that lack evidence of producing better health outcomes compared to less-expensive alternatives; inefficiencies in the provision of health care goods and ...