There are growing calls for healthcare to confront it’s role in the climate crisis. Estimates suggest that carbon emissions from healthcare constitute 5% of net global emissions. To put this into context, emissions from all air travel are estimated at 3.5% of net global emissions.1 Health systems, organisations and clinicians have been called on to lead efforts to reduce emissions given that the climate crisis presents a major threat to human health.

Ensuring appropriateness of care, and reducing overuse are central planks of strategies suggested in the literature and are increasingly being enacted by large healthcare systems and provider organisations to reduce healthcare’s climate impact.2 However, individual clinicians are often left with little guidance or support in terms of how to do this in practice. To illustrate, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the United States Department of Health and Human...

I write this commentary as wildfires rage around the world, including in Greece, Italy, Siberia, Algeria and the USA. In my own country, Canada, fires have already consumed over 130 000 km21—the size of Greece—and the wildfire season has not yet ended. Recent months have also seen hundreds of millions of people suffering scorching heatwaves across Europe, China and North America. Residents of Phoenix, Arizona, endured temperatures over 43°C for 31 consecutive days this summer. In Italy, harsh heat in the south occurred at the same time as storms delivered hail the size of tennis balls in the country’s north. This almost ‘end of days’ juxtaposition of extreme weather events within a single country comes as new research indicates that the Gulf Stream may collapse as soon as 2025.1 Loss of these vital ocean currents would constitute a climate tipping point, making extreme storms more frequent...

If the detector support component fails, imaging cannot be completed, and the detector may contact the patient.

Smiths Medical recalls Medfusion model 4000 syringe pump due to software issues, impacting the alarm system, pump, control screen, and other components.

The High Frequency Transport Phasitron Breathing Circuit Kit is used for continuous ventilation of patients. The kits are recalled due to a product defect that causes over-pressurization.

“Today The World” is voluntarily recalling two lots of Sustain herbal dietary supplement capsules and one lot of Schwinnng capsules to the consumer level. FDA analysis has found the products to contain undeclared Tadalafil and Nortadalafil (structurally similar to Tadalafil). Tadalafil and Nortadala

“Today The World” is voluntarily recalling one lot of Arize Herbal Dietary Supplement capsules to the consumer level.
FDA analysis has found the products to contain undeclared Nortadalafil (structurally similar to Tadalafil). Nortadalafil is an active drug ingredient known for treatment of male ere

In direct response to the Nurse Assist, LLC voluntary product recall (which included products supplied to Cardinal Health used in Covidien and Cardinal Health™ brand kits and trays), Cardinal Health issued a medical device recall on December 5, 2023, for its Covidien and Cardinal Health™ brand urolo

Insight Pharmaceuticals, a Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. company (“Insight”), is voluntarily recalling two lots of TING® 1% Tolnaftate Athlete’s Foot Spray Antifungal Spray Liquid to the consumer level. A recent review by our manufacturer and their third-party lab found that samples from two lot

Cardinal Health Monoject syringes have demonstrated recognition and compatibility issues with certain infusion pumps.

The FDA is warning not to use recalled Cardinal Health Monoject syringes, including Luer-Lock and enteral.

Find answers to frequently asked questions on Philips Respironics ventilators, BiPAP, and CPAP machines recall

This update provides additional information on the recall and recommendations for people who use repaired and replaced devices.

Maquet Express Chest Drain recalled over sterility concerns. When used without the provided syringe, the Express chest drains are safe to use.

Globus Medical, Inc. is recalling the ExcelsiusGPS, an imaging device, due to a calibration algorithm error that may affect the accuracy of implant placement.

Neptune Resources, LLC is voluntarily recalling All lots of Neptune's Fix Elixir, Neptune's Fix Extra Strength Elixir, and Neptune's Fix Tablets to the consumer level. Neptune Resources LLC's distribution channels have not reported any adverse events from the use of its products. The products are be

Woburn, Massachusetts, Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is voluntarily recalling one (1) lot (F230169A) of Zenzedi® CII (dextroamphetamine sulfate tablets, USP) 30 mg to the consumer level. The product is being recalled due to a report from a pharmacist in Nebraska who opened a bottle of Zenzedi® 30 m

Haleon is voluntarily recalling eight lots of Robitussin Honey CF Max Day Adult and Robitussin Honey CF Max Nighttime Adult to the consumer level. The product is being recalled due to microbial contamination. In immunocompromised individuals, the use of the affected product could potentially result

On December 22, 2023, Aligned Medical Solutions, Billings, MT, initiated a nationwide recall of Nurse Assist Sterile Saline packaged into medical device kits including AMS10833 Local Lower Extremity Pack I, AMS12947 In House Ocular Pack, AMS12947A In House Ocular Pack and AMS13043 Closure Kit. Produ

Mumbai, Maharashtra, Kilitch Healthcare India Limited is issuing an amendment in the last Nationwide press release dated November 13, 2023 issued for nationwide recall of various eye drops. There are corrections in product NDC No for the below mentioned products. These products were distributed nati