A study carried out by the University of Granada (UGR) warns of the need to unify existing plans for clinical waste management in the different autonomous communities to improve recycling and waste ...

MultiCare's CMO breaks down how the system achieved cost savings through clinical and financial alignment. From overtreatment like repetitive lab tests and duplicate imaging studies, to unnecessary ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2 (July to December, 2010), pp. 47-54 (8 pages) Abstract: As in many other developing countries, the generation of clinical waste in ...

Figures revealed that NHS providers in England produce around 156,000 tonnes of clinical waste per year, from contaminated clinical materials to hazardous chemicals and sharps*. With thousands of ...

NHS hospitals are being forced store clinical waste, including human remains, at their premises for up to a fortnight after a scandal-hit contractor stopped collecting waste. Extra containers for ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible, neurodegenerative disorder in deer that causes inability to eat, stumbling, drooling, and lack of fear of humans, and in all cases is ultimately fatal ...

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