Healthcare

Drug/medication waste ranks among healthcare's most overlooked sustainability challenges. While clinical errors receive significant attention, a vast share of medication loss stems from operational inefficiencies such as expired inventory, overstocking and dispensing processes that destroy recDrug/medication waste ranks among healthcare's most overlooked sustainability challenges. While clinical errors receive significant attention, a vast share of medication loss stems from operational inefficiencies such as expired inventory, overstocking and dispensing processes that destroy recoverable doses. overable doses.

Pharmacy automation – the hidden sustainability opportunity in healthcare?

2 months ago2 months ago7 mins

Op-ed by Mia Barnes, Body+Mind Magazine. Drug/medication waste ranks among healthcare’s most overlooked sustainability challenges. While clinical errors receive significant…

The healthcare industry is critical to ensuring people’s health and well-being. However, its ability to generate vast amounts of waste from single-use plastics and other disposables is difficult to ignore.

What role does smart packaging play in reducing healthcare waste?

4 months ago4 months ago7 mins

Op-ed by Mia Barnes, Body+Mind Magazine. The healthcare industry is critical to ensuring people’s health and well-being. However, its ability…

A new study by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York has said that measures such as reducing poverty and improving healthcare can be as critical as cutting emissions when it comes to lowering deaths caused by air pollution.

Reducing emissions not the only way to protect lives from air pollution, says study

6 months ago6 months ago4 mins

A new study by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York has said that measures such as…

Why the Planetary Health Diet is a powerful tool for protecting the planet and strengthening food system resilience

9 months ago9 months ago9 mins

Op-ed by Sumati Bajaj, Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN International). What we put on our plates has substantial consequences for…

Supply Chain Biodiversity Footprinting (SCBF) plays a critical role in enabling businesses to meet their obligations under an evolving landscape of biodiversity-related frameworks.

Implementing biodiversity footprinting across pharmaceutical supply chains

10 months ago10 months ago6 mins

Op-ed by Dr Tara Garraty, Tunley Environmental and Benedicta A. Bakpa, Bespak. The pharmaceutical industry is intrinsically linked to biodiversity….

Some 35 global philanthropies have come together to commit an initial $300 million for integrated action to tackle the escalating public health crisis driven by climate change.

Leading philanthropies unite to address health risks driven by climate change

11 months ago10 months ago4 mins

Some 35 global philanthropies have come together to commit an initial $300 million for integrated action to tackle the escalating…

The World Federation for Animals (WFA) has announced that it has been appointed to the World Health Organization’s Civil Society Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR),

World Federation for Animals joins WHO task force on antimicrobial resistance

12 months ago10 months ago3 mins

The World Federation for Animals (WFA) has announced that it has been appointed to the World Health Organization’s Civil Society…

The continued over-reliance on fossil fuels, coupled with delayed action on climate change, is costing millions of lives each year, the 2025 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change has found.

Delayed action on climate change ‘costing millions of lives each year’: The Lancet

12 months ago10 months ago4 mins

The continued over-reliance on fossil fuels, coupled with delayed action on climate change, is costing millions of lives each year,…

A coalition of global healthcare groups, led by Health Care Without Harm, has called for an end to the exemption of healthcare from any global plastics treaty.

Health professionals urge ‘no exemption’ for sector at INC-5.2 talks

1 year ago1 year ago4 mins

A coalition of global healthcare groups, led by Health Care Without Harm, has called for an end to the exemption…

Climate change has significantly intensified the health and economic impact of wildfire smoke in the United States, a new study by researchers at the Harvard Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment has found.

Climate change has intensified health and economic impact of wildfires

1 year ago10 months ago3 mins

Climate change has significantly intensified the health and economic impact of wildfire smoke in the United States, a new study…