Tuesday, Oct. 15 is Global Handwashing Day. Hand washing, while essential to infection control and prevention, suffers from perennially low compliance rates, sometimes as low as 40 percent in ...

The Minnesota Department of Health provides a free, downloadable poster that displays “Wash Your Hands” in 24 languages. The languages presented on the poster are as follows: English, Amharic, Arabic, ...

One of the easiest ways for bacteria to spread is through unwashed hands. That’s true even for drug-resistant bacteria — a threat the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has dubbed a “nightmare.” In ...

Male college students who were exposed to a poster about men’s hand washing behavior were more likely to wash their hands than their counterparts who were not exposed to the poster, according to a ...

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 ...

Although healthcare workers are urged to wash their hands often and hand sanitizer dispensers are everywhere in hospitals, patients are less scrupulous and may be contributing to the spread of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Gerald Hickson (L) and Dr. Tom Talbot of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. (Photo by Hollis Bennett/Getty Images for Yahoo ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Immunization has created a free, downloadable handwashing poster targeted at children. The colorful poster is titled “Wash ...

Practicing hand hygiene through hand washing remains one of the simplest, cheapest and most effective measures to prevent infections. Unsurprisingly, hospitals often hold hand washing campaigns aimed ...

CarolinaEast Medical Center in New Bern is asking students in several school districts to help create an educational campaign to tackle hand hygiene. All over the walls of CarolinaEast, there are ...