While washing one’s hands has always been important for personal and public health, the coronavirus pandemic demonstrates that doing so can actually save lives. It will help enormously in preventing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. This article is more than 5 years old. Effective handwashing ...

Regarding "The fight to bare hands" (June 28): For many years, Oregon has required that food handlers wash their hands twice: first in the restroom and a second time when arriving at their workstation ...

DERBY, England, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Global Handwashing Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched the first global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings — a ...

Welcome to Ritual, Be Well Philly’s new column of essays about the low-tech, purposefully inefficient things we do that pleasurably slow us down. From taking the long way home to hand-washing dishes, ...

Hand hygiene remains a cornerstone of infection prevention in healthcare settings, vital for curtailing the transmission of multidrug‐resistant organisms and reducing the incidence of ...

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 ...

The America's Got Talent judge calls hand-washing "hands making love" At this point, we should all know proper hand-washing etiquette — but if not, please allow Howie Mandel to break it down. The ...

Amidst the drastic changes to daily life wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are frequently reminded about the importance of washing our hands frequently, right and wrong ways of doing that, and how ...

Childcare centers constitute another environment in which stringent hand washing practices are de rigueur. The likelihood of having children transmit illnesses to one another, to teachers, and/or to ...