Unprofessional handling of health care waste has remained a major cause of environmental risks and related infections in the country, experts have said. They spoke at a two-day National Healthcare ...

A 2012 Institute of Medicine reporton health care spending in 2009 estimated that of the $2.7 trillion national spend on health care that year, 30% — or $810 billion — was wasted on ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have now shown how mixed waste from health care can be recycled in a safe and efficient way, using a technique where the material is ...

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 ...

On February 3rd, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value released its report, "A Road Map for Action." Here, we our Council recommendations on administrative spending and waste.

Help us investigate health care waste, fraud and abuse Sarah Kliff is an investigative health care reporter for The Times. Katie Thomas is an investigative health care reporter at The Times.

Informed by prior experience in responding to disease outbreaks and limiting pollutants from health care waste, UNDP in Sri Lanka at the request of the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Sri Lanka, in ...

NORWELL - A day care company and a waste management facility in Massachusetts have teamed up to turn dirty diapers into electricity. Diapers are one of the biggest sources of U.S. household waste ...

Health care management is projected to grow at a rate of 28 percent, which is much faster than average. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) Several school and department scholarships are available for ...

The health care industry generates about 30% of the world’s data volume, and a significant portion of the IT budget is spent on storage and health care data management. It is hard to fathom the ...

Tens of thousands of metric tons of extra medical waste tied to COVID-19 put tremendous strain on health-care waste management around the world.