An E. coli outbreak among children that officials tied to contact with animals at a recent fair has prompted state lawmakers ...

Don Schaffner wants you to understand that your hands are never going to be clean. He should know — over the past 20 years, he has published multiple research papers investigating the minutia of ...

It’s the pandemic mantra: Wash your hands – often. Do it with lots of soapy bubbles, scrubbing for a full 20 seconds (or the time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice). Rinse, dry and repeat as ...

Never before have so many of us been so attentive to the cleanliness of our hands. With the quest to avoid COVID-19, we can't so much as enter a supermarket without magic fluid being squirted into our ...

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Electric clothes washers have been commercially available here in the United States for a little more than a century, since 1907. So, if you're in the US and reading this article, then the odds are ...

My father the doctor maintained that hand-washing was our family’s single greatest obligation to one another and to the world. Is there any hope we’ll all keep doing it? By Nancy Stearns Bercaw My ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I offer straight talk on science, medicine, health and vaccines. Behavior change is hard. Most people haven’t been washing their ...

Supermarkets are running out of hand sanitizer as people rush to protect themselves from Covid-19. But does it beat soap and water? As the public and governments grapple with understanding Covid-19 ...

Nervous to wash your heated blanket? Follow this guide to ensure you're washing it the right way, either by hand or in a ...