In the Press
October 2021
Health Care Without Harm: Ten nursing schools commit to educating students on climate and health
Ten nursing schools from across Europe have committed to ensuring that their students are prepared to care for patients in the context of climate change. By including [...]
The Lancet: The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future
The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing updated, new, and improved indicators each year, the Lancet Countdown [...]
LWV: Climate Change is a Public Health Crisis
People often refer to climate change as an “existential threat.” This makes sense; our existence is being threatened. But as a health professional, I’d like [...]
Financial Times: The climate crisis is also a healthcare crisis
The warning could not be starker. “The science is unequivocal,” wrote the editors of over 200 international health journals in a simultaneously published call to [...]
The BMJ Opinion: Single use plastic in healthcare must not become the new normal
We must not let our reliance on single-use plastic in healthcare become the “new normal” or set-back the strides taken prior to the covid-19 pandemic [...]
Repertoire: Legislators to consider establishing federal office to manage supply chain crises
October 20, 2021 – With supply chain issues expected to stretch well into next year and beyond, lawmakers are looking to centralize Washington’s response and [...]
The New England Journal of Medicine: Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector — A Call to Action
Nowhere are the effects of climate change manifesting more clearly than in human health. Although many people consider climate change a looming threat, health problems [...]
NS Medical Devices: How recycling and reusing can make OEMs work more sustainably
The health sector is responsible for an estimated 4.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions – the vast majority of which originate in the supply chain. [...]
Med Page Today’s KevinMD.com: Is COVID a turning point for sustainability in hospital supply chains?
…Health care systems can also prepare for future crises and become more sustainable by prioritizing resource conservation and waste reduction. Third-party single-use device reprocessors represent an underutilized opportunity to [...]
Fraunhofer Magazine: Matters of the Heart
Cardiac catheterization is a standard life-saving procedure in Germany: Nearly 750,000 times a year, the procedure gets under patients’ skin and penetrates their heart. Electrophysiology [...]
Health Care Without Harm: Three health authorities pave the way for zero emissions healthcare
Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe is partnering with three national and regional health authorities to develop and pilot a new methodology that can be applied by any [...]
AAMI: The Ground has Shifted in the ‘Right to Repair’ Debate. What’s Next?
Healthcare’s advocates for the “right to repair” medical devices like what they’re seeing at the moment. This year, one of their first reasons for optimism [...]
Med City News: Why the right-to-repair conversation needs to extend further
The right-to-repair movement has been successful at the state level in raising awareness about the financial, environmental, and ethical benefits of allowing consumers to seek repair and [...]
Medical Device Network: How hospitals and the medtech sector are tackling the climate crisis
It’s no secret that the impending climate crisis is already having an increasingly negative impact on public health. Respiratory and cardiovascular diseases have been linked [...]
September 2021
Lexology: Single-use medical devices’ reprocessing and further use to be permitted in Portugal
Portugal initiated the 2015/1535 notification procedure of the decree-law establishing the rules applicable to the reprocessing and further use of single-use devices, following up Medical [...]
Healthcare Without Harm: Measuring and Reducing Plastics in the Healthcare Sector
Plastic has become ubiquitous in healthcare, with a dramatic shift towards single-use items in recent decades. Though essential for healthcare delivery in some cases, plastic [...]
Mainco Healthcare: Webinar Latest Trends In Central Sterilization.
AMDR's Dan Vukelich is speaking at Mainco Healthcare Webinar on September 23rd, 2021. Topics include exploring reprocessing in Central and South America. Join us for [...]
BMJ: Net zero healthcare: a call for clinician action
Health professionals are well positioned to effect change by reshaping individual practice, influencing healthcare organisations, and setting clinical standards, argue Jodi Sherman and colleagues Achieving [...]
Health Care Without Harm: Towards Plastic-Free Healthcare in Europe
Plastics have become indispensable in the healthcare sector and they are facilitating the work of healthcare professionals all over the world. The low price of [...]
Metro Vancouver and the National Zero Waste Council: A Future Without Waste – 2021 Conference Program
For 11 years, the Zero Waste Conference has been at the forefront of Canada’s circular economy journey bringing together thought leaders, innovators and change makers, [...]