Dr Dong-Chun Shin, professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Institute for Environmental Research at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea, received the 2017 Environmental Health Hero Award during the CleanMed conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota- United States.

Hospitals in the Boston area (United States) are achieving incredible progress in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 29 percent between 2011 and 2015, and are on track to reduce by 33 percent by 2020, according to a new report released by Health Care Without Harm – US and Canada.

More than 600 pharmaceuticals and their metabolites have been found in the environment worldwide. They pose serious threats to human health, including antimicrobial resistance.