The path to Global Green Careers
15.07.2025
Sustainability specialists are becoming more important as ecological pressure and regulatory requirements increase.
Protective gloves: hygiene and comfort
24.03.2025
Three practical examples for more protection, sustainability and wearing comfort of disposable medical gloves.
Okos Diagnostics
Rapid tests with biomaterials
27.08.2024
Okos Diagnostics has set itself the goal of reducing the amount of waste with a sustainable rapid test solution.
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DIANA: Alliance for innovative point-of-care tests
23.07.2024
To improve local medical care through point-of-care tests (PoCT), 80 partners from industry and research in Saxony and Thuringia have joined forces to form the DIANA (Diagnostics and Sustainability) alliance. Dr. Dirk Kuhlmeier coordinates the alliance.
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Sustainable and biobased masks
10.07.2024
A team at Ilmenau Technical University has developed an environmentally friendly solution: bio-based respiratory masks.
Waste management: saving resources
06.02.2024
There is potential for clinics to make savings if they optimize processes such as waste disposal.
Laboratory equipment – fit for the future with more sustainability
30.11.2023
We spoke to exhibitors at MEDICA 2023 who are driving sustainability in laboratory operations with their products. Watch the video to find out what levers are available here and which products can already be manufactured sustainably today.
Breath the spirit of MEDICA 2023 – Highlight tour with Director Christian Grosser
13.11.2023
Topics like artificial Intelligence, automation and robotics, and sustainability are shaking the medical industry – and both MEDICA and COMPAMED reflect that. We are walking through the trade show halls of MEDICA with Christian Grosser, Director Health & Medical Technologies at Messe Düsseldorf, to talk about this: What are his impressions of this year’s MEDICA and COMPAMED?
Transire Bio
Direct route for medication into blood
02.11.2023
A suction cup from the start-up Transire Bio will enable drugs to enter the bloodstream non-invasively in the future.
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Sustainability: What is the carbon footprint of a hospital bed?
22.09.2023
Researchers from the University of Waterloo completed the first-ever assessment of a Canadian hospital to reveal its total environmental footprint and specific carbon emission hotspots.
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CO2 footprint of endoscopy reduced
22.08.2023
The University Hospital of Würzburg has succeeded in reducing the CO2 footprint in endoscopy with a focus on consumables.
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Biomaterials: toolbox for the development of bioadhesives
28.07.2023
The team of Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheibel, Chair of Biomaterials at the University of Bayreuth, has compiled a current overview of the state of research on protein-based bioadhesives.
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Hospital construction: WHO recommends Politecnico di Milano design guidelines
20.06.2023
The World Health Organization presented the new design recommendations for new hospitals to be built in the European Region, the result of a research partnership with the Politecnico di Milano. The document was prepared by the Design & Health Lab in the Department of Architecture, Construction Engineering and the Built Environment at the Politecnico.
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Projects in hospital construction
17.03.2023
MEDICA exhibitor Axis Medical has a lot of experience with hospital construction projects and knows what is important.
Georgia Tech
New ultrafast water disinfection method is more environmentally friendly
27.02.2023
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have found a way to use small shocks of electricity to disinfect water, reducing energy consumption, cost, and environmental impact.