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In recent years, the use of dilute solutions containing epinephrine salts has significantly increased in medical applications. Dilute solutions of epinephrine salts are now widely used in local anesthetics, eye surgery applications, and orthopedic surgery applications. More concentrated solutions have been used for many years in cardiac applications and treatment of severe allergic reactions. Colorado has closely evaluated these applications, the...

"The slow violence being inflicted on our environment-through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution-also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard healthcare practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in...