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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we become physicians, our first act is to take the oath “First, do no harm,” one of the guiding principles for everyone in health care. But if we were doing something every day that causes harm ...