From Health & Environment, a monthly website and e-publication about preventing harm to health from environmental contaminants. Subscribe here.---Rodney R Dietert, Professor of Immunotoxicology at…
We know that smoking tar isn’t very good for us, but what about extracting oil from it?Tar sands are large deposits of bitumen mixed with water, sand and clay. It’s more complicated, more wasteful and…
A carbon footprint study of a UK renal service published in the Quarterly Journal of Medicinethis month confirms the importance of tackling supply chain emissions, revealing that the procurement of…
Trevor Payne, Director of Estates and Facilities at UCLH ran an extremely successful challenge to encourage his catering suppliers to offer a low carbon dish for two weeks in July to coincide with…
The Green Nephrology programme is looking for an enthusiastic health professional with experience in kidney care. After a brilliant first year, the programme is seeking to build the national Green…
The white paper proposes that patients will be offered more choice of health providers and treatments, and this means that patients will therefore be more discerning of the practices of their…
We must surely take every opportunity to promote exercise and physical activity given the financial and carbon costs associated with our increasingly sedentary lifestyles. Obesity alone is predicted…
I am at the University of Cambridge and part of an EPSRC-funded research team.Hospitals must be able to withstand the impacts from disruptive events in order to maintain continual service. These…
When I was at school, I remember having a vague sense I wanted to do something to do with either health or the environment. Medicine was a more established path than anything environmental, and seemed…
Royal College of Nursing activists were heading home to “green” their wards after training sessions at the Joint Reps conference last week. It was great to be invited along to the Joint…