When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

A key step to preventing the spread of diseases like COVID-19 or influenza is simple: washing hands. But lack of piped water in parts of rural Alaska has made that simple practice not so easy to carry ...

As flu season surges on, there's an easy way to reduce your risk of getting sick: Wash your hands properly. It may seem like common sense, but handwashing is one of the most important of ways of ...

Providing individualized feedback on hand hygiene to healthcare workers (HCWs) at nursing homes on a weekly basis did not lead to improved compliance, according to a March study published in Infection ...

Though hand-washing is proven effective in combating the spread of disease and infection, the physics behind it has rarely been studied. But in Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, researchers from ...

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