Construction & Facilities
"A design team which produces a total, balanced, efficient design can help to produce a better environment."
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This category monitors the role of the built environment, including facility design and construction materials, in preventing the spread of microbes and combating AMR. It explores how architectural design, engineering controls, and material science can be leveraged to create healthier spaces that are less conducive to pathogen transmission.
Physical structures such as hospitals, clinics and nursing homes can be designed and constructed with infection control in mind and thereby contribute to reducing risks and untoward effects of AMR. The category is devoted to news, insights and solutions regarding clinical construction news and learnings therefrom, including inventions, installations and architectural modalities intended for and developed to counter AMR.
Since AMR and the societal handling of the challenge is a public health matter and therefore governed, if addressed, by the political level you will find news and information related also to healthcare systems in this category, including as, if and when renovation, extension or greenfield construction of entire new hospitals surface which will allow you to chip in from a professional viewpoint once the opportunity emerges. If you have a particular interest in business opportunities and wish to monitor and subscribe to tenders and RfPs in the field we recommend you take a peek at our Section Matchmaking & Partnering.
As hospitals are part of as well as have an impact on their environment by their treatments this topic is covered in this section, too. It has been estimated that healthcare may account for up to 6% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and since pharmaceutical residues in wastewater, not least when it comes to antibiotics, you will find information about these matters in this category also.
Topics include the design of modern healthcare facilities, the integration of advanced HVAC and air filtration systems, and the development and application of antimicrobial materials and surfaces for high-touch areas. The focus is on proactive, engineered solutions that build infection control directly into the infrastructure of our buildings, thereby reducing the overall risk of infection.
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View allRecord High': 146 Experts Call to Declare Climate Change a Global Health Emergency
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As record heat interrupts work, overloads hospitals, and claims thousands of lives around the world, international experts are calling for climate change to be officially recognized as a global health emergency, in The Lancet's 2026 Countdown on Health and Climate Change. The rate of increase in many climate-related health threats is accelerating, while heat deaths linked to climate change have reached a record-high, and the economic toll is battering vulnerable sectors and communities the hardest," says climate health researcher Marina Romanello, executive director of The Lancet Countdown. They say the World Health Organization and United Nations must declare climate change a global health emergency, coordinate governments to put human health at the center of climate decisions, and increase grant-based funding to finance climate and health initiatives. "Ten years ago, we proposed that responding to climate change could offer the greatest health opportunity of the 21st century through adaptation efforts and rapid progress in phasing down fossil fuels and other emission sources", says global health expert and The Lancet Countdown co-chair Anthony Costello."Oprøret ulmer: Over hele landet siger lokale nej til datacentre
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Hun og en håndfuld andre lokale er blevet en form for spydspidser for modstanden i en dialoggruppe foranlediget af Varde Kommune, og hun fortæller, hvordan folk i den lille by er vrede, ulykkelige og yderst utrygge ved planerne, der dog endnu kun er på tegnebrættet. Men i løbet af de seneste par måneder er dét, der for foreningens talsperson Søren Bak Sommer startede som en lokal sag, vokset og har både påkaldt sig opmærksomhed fra folketingsmedlemmer og fra borgere i andre dele af landet, hvor der også er planer om datacentre. Og selvom regeringen med en akutplan for elnettet i foråret satte datacentre bagest i køen, og erhvervsminister Martin Lidegaard har bebudet en national datacenter-strategi, bliver det lokale demokrati sat under pres i kommunerne, hvor det vælter ind med ansøgninger om at bygge datacentre, mener Søren Bak Sommer. - Vi står i en situation, hvor vi hver eneste uge ser nye overskrifter omkring, hvordan verdens tilstand er på klimafronten, og så nytter det jo ikke noget, at vi kaster hyperskala-datacentre ind - den mest energitunge ting, menneskeheden nogensinde har frembragt - i en tid, hvor vi er nødt til at nedsætte vores energiforbrug.455 top-ranked hospitals by state: Healthgrades
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Healthgrades released its 2027 Specialty State Rankings Oct. 27, naming the top three or five hospitals in each of 19 specialties across 30 states. The rankings use Medicare inpatient data from 2023 to 2025 on 31 conditions and procedures. To be ranked, a hospital must have no one-star ratings and at least one five-star rating in the cohort being measured. States with six or fewer eligible hospitals in a specialty are not ranked in that specialty, states with seven to 10 eligible hospitals receive a top three and states with 11 or more receive a top five. This year's ranked specialties include emergency hospitalization, which was not ranked last year and covers 12 common emergency conditions. The 30 states with rankings are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.6 medical schools slated to open in 2027
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Six medical schools and campuses are slated to welcome their first students in 2027, adding to a wave of new programs aimed at easing projected physician shortages. Four have earned preliminary accreditation or pre-accreditation, which allows them to recruit their inaugural classes. Several aim to train physicians for underserved or rural communities.Var sjunde flygresenär hade antibiotika i bagaget
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Andelen varierade ganska mycket mellan flygplatserna, på Arlanda hade 23 procent av de kontrollerade resenärerna antibiotika med sig, att jämföra med 10 procent på både Landvetter och Gardermoen. Av de som anlände från EU- och EES-länder hade bara 3 procent antibiotika med sig, jämfört med 27 procent bland resenärer från Asien. – Man kan i alla fall inte säga att det här inte är ett problem, utan det är något man behöver titta närmare på, säger Anna Moberg, universitetslektor vid Linköpings universitet och ansvarig för studien, i ett pressmeddelande. Resultaten kan därför egentligen inte användas för att uppskatta hur stor andel av alla flygresenärer som för in antibiotika.
