Almost half of hospital visitors skip washing their hands after using the toilet. If that’s happening in hospitals, imagine ...

Your hands can have anywhere from 100,000 to a few million germs at any given time. Some of those germs live naturally on your skin to protect you, but a lot of them are quite literally picked up ...

In this season of the flu and other bugs like the norovirus, people are constantly told that the best and first line of defense is hand sanitizers and soaps to kill as many as 400,000 germs per ...

Over the roughly five-month period, they found that 43.7% of users did not wash their hands after using the loo. The figure, ...

Some hand-washing mistakes might seem obviously wrong, but people do them all the time, according to Brashear. For example, you need both soap and water to effectively wash your hands.

2. Know How and When to Wash Hands One of the most common ways children get colds is by rubbing their nose or eyes after cold virus germs have gotten on their hands. And children often don't wash ...

Hand sanitizer can be especially convenient for killing germs when you’re on the go or traveling. But while many hand sanitizers claim to kill 99.9% of germs, they’re not effective against ...

Hand washing isn't exactly an arduous chore, especially since it's done in the name of squashing germs, says Carl Borchgrevink, an associate professor at Michigan State University's School of ...

"The current scientific evidence for handwashing suggests that following the five steps to washing hands the right way can remove at least 99% of germs on hands," Dr. David Berendes ...

Hand sanitizer can kill germs, but it doesn’t always get all of them, which makes handwashing a better bet. If you absolutely cannot get to a sink, use a hand sanitizer that has at least 60% ...

So Sklansky decided to test a new method for limiting the spread of germs and reducing the transmission of disease in the hospital: a handshake-free zone. "We are trying to do everything to ...