Beginning seven years ago when the Associated Press released a report that revealed trace amounts of pharmaceuticals were found in the drinking water used by at least 46 million Americans, hospitals ...

Nursing homes handle everything from wound care to medication injections daily, meaning they produce a steady flow of medical ...

New Hampshire’s health care facilities should keep an eye on a proposed federal rule that could fundamentally change the way that hazardous waste pharmaceuticals are handled. The U.S. Environmental ...

The Obama administration said Monday it will dramatically limit the flushing of pharmaceutical waste at hospitals and other health care facilities as part of a larger effort to improve water quality ...

· Hospital patients in the United States generate about 33.8 pounds of waste each day, which leads to about 6 million tons of ...

On February 22, 2019, EPA published its final rule governing standards for the management of pharmaceutical hazardous wastes in the Federal Register (Final Rule). 1 The Final Rule’s publication in the ...

Muscle relaxants, opioids, and other pharmaceuticals are leaking into the environment at two wastewater plants in New York, a new study has revealed. Water entering the streams from two wastewater ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has promulgated its proposed regulation of “hazardous waste pharmaceuticals,” i.e., pharmaceutical residues discarded from health care facilities which also ...

Several years ago as a young graduate student I was privy to gossip about a supposed site near Puerto Rico where pharmaceutical waste was dumped in the ocean. A senior scientist in my field told me ...

Rebecca Hodes has received funding from the Medicines Research Council and the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Fogarty ...

The issue has been lingering for a long time, with medical waste and food waste regularly thrown on the footpath, creating a ...