Cardiology
How can heart health care be greener?
A new review has shown how medical professionals in cardiology can help reduce health care's carbon footprint, by making small, low-cost changes in how they work.
May 3, 2023
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News tagged with global emissions
Radiology & Imaging
Small steps can yield big energy savings and cut emissions from MRIs
Medical centers around the world could significantly reduce their carbon footprint and expenses by turning off MRIs and putting them in the lowest power mode instead of idling them when not in use, a new study in Radiology ...
Apr 25, 2023
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Health
What the heck are pulses? European unawareness stands in the way of this 'green' superfood
European consumption of pulses doesn't stack up against national dietary recommendations—with Denmark in last place. This is the finding of a new study by the University of Copenhagen as part of the "FOODENGINE" program. ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Health
Persistent fossil fuel over-dependence puts health of current and future generations in jeopardy
As countries and health systems continue to grapple with the health, social and economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict in Ukraine, and a global energy and cost of living crisis, climate change continues ...
Oct 25, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
The use of nitrous oxide 'cracking ' technology in the labor ward
In a case report published in Anaesthesia Reports, a 35-year-old woman who is herself an anesthetist describes her own use of special equipment to recover and break down nitrous oxide used for pain relief during her labor, ...
Sep 16, 2022
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Health
Global diets are harming human and planetary health
A global diet that increasingly includes ultra-processed foods is having a negative impact on the diversity of plant species available for human consumption while also damaging human and planetary health, according to a commentary ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Medical economics
What the US health care sector can learn from Coca-Cola
A new, Yale-led analysis suggests that the Coca-Cola Company and a number of other corporations are the real thing when it comes to publicly reporting the environmental impact of their operations—something the American ...
Feb 11, 2022
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Health
Clean indoor air would do more than help us fight COVID, it would help us concentrate
Sometimes the best things you can do are invisible.
Feb 8, 2022
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Health
Menus need to be at least 75% vegetarian for meat eaters to choose plant-based food, study finds
Researchers from the University of Westminster have found that meat eaters are significantly more likely to choose vegetarian meals when they make up the majority of food offered. A menu had to be at least 75% vegetarian ...
Dec 14, 2021
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Health
Radical measures needed to change unsustainable and unhealthy behaviors for net zero 2050
Rapid and radical changes to systems that currently support unhealthy unsustainable behavior are needed to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, argue experts in The BMJ today.
Oct 6, 2021
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