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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 ...

Can a dishwasher – which is basically a glorified dish shower – really get your dishes as clean as washing them by hand? The research on this is crystal-clear: dishwashers get dishes much cleaner than ...

Handwashing has never been more important now that we’re living with COVID-19 as the new norm, so one clever mom has a trick to ensure her kids don’t do the sneaky pretend wash when they’re sent to ...

We’ve all been taught from a very young age that washing our hands is important. Apparently, this lesson didn’t quite stick for everyone. The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) ...

Deirdre McKay receives funding from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and UKRI via the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Global Challenges Research Fund. Kelly Sheridan receives ...

Hand-washing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. Since it began collecting ...

One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing your hands is essential to good hygiene and stopping germs from spreading. Washing your hands ...

Handwashing is a routine habit for eliminating dirt and germs most of us encounter daily. But despite the health benefits of hand hygiene, a survey finds that a large segment of people wash their ...

From tiny plankton to massive whales, microplastics have been found throughout the ocean food chain. One major source of this pollution are fibers shed while laundering synthetic fabrics. Although ...