In the Press
May 2022
Med City News: As the pandemic wanes, challenges abound for U.S. healthcare systems
More than two years after the pandemic started to impact U.S. healthcare, we seem to be past the worst parts of it. However, while the [...]
Health Care Without Harm: Momentum for transformation of US health care sector spotlighted at climate and health conference
The U.S. health care sector's growing commitment and progress toward creating low-carbon, climate-resilient, socially equitable health systems took center stage at this week's CleanMed, the [...]
April 2022
Sunday Times: Medical authority under pressure to re-use costly single-use devices
The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has come under pressure this week to formulate a clear directive concerning the use of single-use medical devices [...]
Health Care Without Harm: Project update | Towards plastic-free healthcare in Europe
The first phase of the Towards plastic-free healthcare project successfully concluded in September 2021 and has given participants a greater understanding of plastic use and solutions in [...]
The South African: SAHPRA under pressure to re-use certain single-use medical devices
MORE GROUPS ARE URGING SAHPRA TO CONSIDER THE RE-USE OF SINGLE-USE DEVICES The international trade association, a commercial representative of single-use processors and promotor of [...]
Clemson SFB Industry Panel: Global Trends for Reprocessing, Reuse, and Infection Control
Session Scope: Medical device reprocessing is an essential practice in healthcare delivery and is among the top 10 regulatory science priorities at FDA. Reprocessing is [...]
RAPS: Medtech remanufacturing is the new battleground for right-to-repair advocates
Medical device remanufacturing is the new front in the right-to-repair fight according to advocates who want users to have the ability to fix their own [...]
Mass General Brigham: Mass General Brigham’s commitment to achieving healthcare sustainability
The health sector is responsible for approximately 8.5% of U.S. carbon emissions, which are the leading cause of global climate change. As an industry leader in [...]
Sowetan Live: Reuse medical devices to contain healthcare costs: Experts to Sahpra
Leading academics and surgeons have raised concerns about the country’s strict stance of not reusing some single-use medical devices, labelling the early discarding of some [...]
The New England Journal of Medicine: After COP26 — Putting Health and Equity at the Center of the Climate Movement
Participation by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in last fall’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) represents an important milestone in the [...]
National Academy of Medicine: Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector Virtual Meeting
This free public meeting discussed health sector decarbonization in the U.S. and internationally, as well as presented the priorities and plans of the Action Collaborative [...]
European Commission’s Call for Evidence for an Impact Assessment: Sustainable Consumption of Goods – Promoting Repair and Reuse
The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR) represents the worldwide interests of commercial reprocessors (known in Europe as “remanufacturers”) of “single-use” medical devices (SUDs) as [...]
Medline Newsroom: Medline to triple solar investment, renewable energy production in 2022
With the recent addition of solar panels at Medline’s distribution center in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, the company now has eight facilities in the U.S. and around the world [...]
March 2022
Med Device Online: How To Design Medical Devices With Sustainability In Mind
Sustainability has risen to the top of the corporate agenda in many industries, including the medical device market. Part of the push toward environmental stewardship [...]
University of Exeter Sustainability Report: Accelerating the transition towards a net zero NHS
The NHS and wider health system are a source of great national pride. Since 1948, the system has provided free at-the-point-of-use health care services to [...]
Health Care Business News: Five Minutes in Healthcare – featuring Dan Vukelich
In this installment, I check back in with Dan Vukelich, president of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR), regarding the state of reprocessing in [...]
MRW: Repair and remanufacturing ‘could drive NHS to net zero’
Meeting NHS targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be “extremely challenging” without greater reuse and recycling, a report by the University of Exeter’s [...]
Right to repair: MEPs set out their demands ahead of Commission’s proposal
The “right to repair” must encompass designing products that last longer and can be fixed, as well as labelling to better inform consumers and extending [...]
Medica: Single-use catheter reprocessing in electrophysiology
Catheter ablation is a way to treat irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias, like atrial fibrillation. Although catheters are classified as single-use or disposable devices, the complex [...]
The Wall Street Journal: SEC Floats Mandatory Disclosure of Climate-Change Risks, Emissions
WASHINGTON—U.S. regulators proposed stringent requirements for publicly traded companies to report information on greenhouse-gas emissions and risks related to climate change, in one of the [...]