Dr Shawn G. Gibbs joins Ethics Talk to discuss industrial hygiene, biocontainment, and how to build more sustainable health systems. 

Facial transplantation provides a viable option for those patients with severe facial defects who are more likely to adapt to their new facial appearance.

A star-filled sky has long been a source of awe and inspiration, and its loss adversely affects human, nonhuman, and environmental health.

Individuals and communities have rights to not have their space impinged upon by hostile urban plans, designs, or development.

The concept stewardship borrows from collective action problems that cannot be solved by individuals only, just like those discussed in environmental ethics.

Healthy Housing Omaha, an environmental health nonprofit, partnered with an artist and a newspaper to raise awareness of lead poisoning.

If the safe-and-effective standard for judging devices’ potential as therapy or enhancement is inadequate, one might wonder whether BCI regulation should be overseen by the FDA.

The volume of hazardous health care waste is a global problem and its disposal can be environmentally damaging.

Government- and industry-funded campaigns for medication disposal do work, but responsibility often falls on local health care organizations to provide education and services.

Mismanagement of hospital waste can release harmful, deleterious contaminants into soil, water, and air and can have far-reaching environmental and public relations consequences.