Think for a moment about a conversation that you have had that left you unsettled. Maybe it was the content of the conversation, the subject matter questioning the very essence of the values of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Proper hand hygiene is essential to reduce COVID-19 transmission and preserve skin barrier integrity, according ...

Hand hygiene, as a principle for safety in hospitals, has been around for over a century,” Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said. However, despite the well-understood importance ...

A World Health Organization-endorsed six-step hand hygiene technique using alcohol-based hand sanitizer gel is more effective at removing bacteria than a three-step technique that the CDC recommends, ...

A systematic review published in April this year, which pooled the results of 28 studies worldwide, identified four main ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Today on Hand Hygiene Day, observed each year on May 5, WHO is promoting its annual campaign, “Save Lives: Clean ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles in which we will bring in an expert to address some of the misinformation we have read in various social ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has emphasised the vital role of hand hygiene in protecting public health, urging health workers across all levels to lead by example ...

A lack of soap is the most often reported barrier to effective hand hygiene-key to curbing the spread of infection-in shared community spaces, such as households, schools, and public places, finds a ...