According to Health Care Without Harm’s 2019 Climate Footprint report, healthcare accounts for 8.5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and 4.4% globally. The operating room is a major point of emissions ...
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Anesthetic gas emissions have dropped by 27% in last decade, but there's room for improvement
Gases used in anesthesia are potent greenhouse gases, and their total global impact has not previously been known. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health led by Lund University shows that ...
Dr. Sam Smith was on call at a Santa Barbara hospital in January 2018 when mudslides killed 23 people. Over the next few years, Smith, an anesthesiologist, helped treat patients suffering injuries or ...
A study has found a novel treatment approach against Alzheimer's disease. While the usual methods for treatment include focussing on amyloid plaque and tau tangles (targeting the protein called tau in ...
It was early morning in an operating theater at Providence Hospital in Portland, Ore. A middle-aged woman lay on the operating table, wrapped in blankets. Surgeons were about to cut out a cancerous ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Doctors in San Francisco are at the forefront of a movement to replace the drugs used for general anesthesia, which have been determined to be contributing to our climate change ...
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