Blog posts tagged ‘med tech’

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Image of Khoudia Sow with a blue vase behind her.
13 May 2025

15th Scientific Days CRCF/ANRS MIE: Rethinking medical device for reuse, renewal and resilience

At the 15th Scientific Days organised by the Regional Centre for Research and Training in HIV Care (CRCF), Khoudia Sow introduced After the Single Use to an audience of Senegalese,…
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24 Nov 2025

Unravelling the healthcare paradox: tensions in sustainable healthcare

A new reflection from CleanMed Europe 2025 explores the unresolved tensions shaping sustainable healthcare: how we balance patient outcomes, budgets, and planetary health, and who carries the burden of driving change. Read the full piece on why confronting these trade-offs is essential for reimagining healthcare’s future.
The project team members stand together for a group photo at after Bruno's presentation
01 Oct 2025

The Plastic Hospital: How Healthcare Learned to Throw Things Away

Reflections on the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health conference, where project members organised a panel and launched two new books.
Hands wearing gloves are taking apart medical devices.
29 Apr 2026

Deconstructing Devices at MAE Vienna

At MAE 2025, Alice Street and Millie Marriott Webb’s lab dissected single-use medical plastics, tracing lifecycles and waste to rethink anthropological approaches to devices and environmental impact.
Poster for the Levi Symposium.
12 Nov 2024

Levi Symposium: The Value(s) of Disposability in Health Care

At the Levi Symposium, scholars and practitioners explored whether healthcare must trade safety, efficacy, or efficiency for sustainability—or if durable, low-carbon alternatives can achieve all.
Long distance shot of the Diagnostic Discard: the making of a plastic pandemic exhibition

Can plastic waste from point-of-care diagnostics be reduced?

Academic publications

Point-of-care diagnostics are saving lives, but at a steep environmental cost. With billions of plastic tests discarded annually, can the healthcare industry reinvent diagnostics to be both effective and sustainable?
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Plastics in health care: rethinking medical device innovation, use, and disposal for sustainability

Academic publications

The virtues of medical plastics have a dark side: where do discarded devices go? Can we redesign them to reduce, reuse, or recycle our way towards a more sustainable economy?
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A Pragmatic Approach to Streamlining Single-Use Plastics in Health Care

Academic publications

The PASS-UP framework offers a practical, evidence-based approach to reduce single-use plastics in health care, promoting sustainability without compromising safety, effectiveness, or affordability through collaboration, redesign, and targeted reduction.
A range of autoinjector types: reusable, smart and single use.
28 Mar 2025

Inside Medical Technology UK 2025: Is Sustainability Back in the Basement?

Intelligent healthcare and realising the potential of the Internet of Medical Things take the top spots on the medtech industry’s agenda, but where does that leave sustainability?
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