According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly one in 25 patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection. Physicians and healthcare workers, however, have the ability to ...

Tork, an Essity brand and the global leader in professional hygiene, has announced its 10 th annual participation in the World Hand Hygiene Day activation with this year’s theme of “It’s Always Hand ...

Some Americans are still not doing their due diligence when it comes to washing their hands. That’s according to a new survey that found nearly half of its respondents forget or choose not to wash ...

Historical perspectiveHand hygiene is recognized by infection prevention and control experts as the single most important intervention in decreasing the spread of infection in both healthcare and ...

— -- For doctors and nurses, hand hygiene is supposed to be as intuitive as breathing. But is this behavior really second-nature, or do health care workers need supervision to keep their hand ...

GOJO Industries, a leader in hand hygiene and skin health and inventors of PURELL® Hand Sanitizer, conducted an independent research study at the John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas to ...

But in an era of rising rates of drug-resistant infections and overburdened medical staffs, hygiene experts say the best-protected patients are those willing to take safety into their own hands — by ...

The majority of germs that cause serious infections in humans are transmitted by people’s actions. One of the effective means to prevent these infections is by practicing good hand hygiene. Several ...

City Health Tech’s award-winning product is only 3.5 inches tall, but it is mighty. The colorful 3D-printed monitor straps onto a faucet to count and collect data on hand-washing time. Its screen also ...

The Trump Administration has committed to reopening the economy at all costs, the White House coronavirus task force has vanished from view, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was silenced ...

It’s the pandemic mantra: Wash your hands – often. Do it with lots of soapy bubbles, scrubbing for a full 20 seconds (or the time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice). Rinse, dry and repeat as ...

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