It’s officially hand washing awareness week -- a time set aside each year to remind people about the importance of good hand hygiene, especially as the flu, coronavirus and RSV spread. Hand washing is ...

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Many experts have warned of a potential severe flu season now that children are back in school, employees have returned to the office and more people are traveling for the ...

Long before COVID-19, washing and sterilizing hands were known to help prevent the spread of infections such as influenza, and hand hygiene practices were especially important in high-risk areas, such ...

Most people know to wash their hands after using the bathroom and before eating, but research on where germs actually concentrate reveals a surprising list of everyday objects that deserve a hand-wash ...

OXFORD — Washing your hands might seem like a simple act, but the effect it can have on personal and public health is far form simple, according to the Association for Professionals in Infection ...

Allowing medical students to act as covert observers of hand hygiene improves their awareness of the importance of hand hygiene, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection ...

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has launched a national awareness campaign highlighting the importance of hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in reducing ...

Mita Moima and Dorrianne Mahlangu demonstrating how to properly wash hands. Image: Facebook/Gauteng health department. World Hand Hygiene Day serves as a powerful reminder of the critical role that ...

Nurses’ roles in hand hygiene improvement initiatives, videos promoting hand hygiene awareness and the possible role sinks play in spreading germs captured the attention of infection control and ...

Dec. 4-10 was National Hand-Washing Awareness Week. It’s a good reminder that frequent hand-washing remains one of the best defenses against getting sick with the flu or COVID-19. But to be effective, ...