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.

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 ...

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 ...

Health Care Wastes Get WHO's Attention. A new fact sheet from the World Health Organization sums up the problems of improper sharps disposal and health care waste that often is not separated into ...

Around the world, some 16 billion plastic syringes and 15 billion face masks are thrown away each year.1,2 Unknown in the first half of the 20th century, the global production, circulation, and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.