Green Hospitals

250 Million Pounds of Drugs Dumped into Water Annually, says AP

U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation.

Rush University Medical Center Breaks Ground on Green Hospital

Rush University Medical Center broke ground on September 25, 2008 for a 14-floor, 807,000-square-foot hospital, dubbed “Green Rush”. The facility will be located at the northwest corner of Ashland Avenue and Harrison Street, one and a half miles west of downtown Chicago along the Eisenhower Expressway.

The new facility’s interior and external shape reflect the input of hundreds of nurses, doctors and patients, whose ideas about universal room design, patient and family comfort, efficiency, safety...

WHO Calls for Study on Pharmaceutical Waste

Five years ago, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization published a seminal article titled, “Potential impact of pharmaceuticals on environmental health”.

Software cuts CT radiation in half

A new software program that enhances the quality of CT images allowed doctors to cut in half the radiation dose needed for a colon scan and still produce clear images, U.S. researchers reported on June 21, 2010
A series of recent studies has suggested that computed tomography or CT scans can increase a person's lifetime risk of cancer, especially younger people who have multiple scans.
"This new technique allows us to use far less radiation than even a typical abdominal CT scan without compromisin...