Single-use health care items—everything from gloves and blood bags to surgical equipment—have become a growing environmental problem worldwide. Their use has increased sharply in recent years ...

The ileostomy bag collects the digestive waste of people who have undergone an ileostomy. Proper skin care and regular bag emptying are essential to prevent complications.

Some 14,000 tons of waste is generated every day at hospitals and other health care facilities around the country, roughly a quarter of it plastic.

Learn about the types of medical waste, the health risks it poses, and how health care settings disposed of it.

Republicans in Congress have made a lot of noise about eliminating “waste and fraud” in federal health-care spending. If they were serious about this goal, they would start by overhauling ...

Policies implemented over the past three years empower fiduciaries to scrutinize and manage health care costs and regain control of the unsustainable cost burden weighing on employers and employees.

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Northwell Health is turning blood collection tubes, needles and other lab waste into nonhazardous flakes — and hunting for a recycling firm that can make the material useful for manufacturers ...

A medical waste disposal company operating in Fargo, North Dakota, has filed a scathing lawsuit against health care system Sanford Health. The lawsuit claims—among many things—that Sanford ...

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