Consistently washing hands with soap and water is an easy, effective and affordable way to prevent the spread of diseases and save lives. MENOMONEE FALLS, WI – When it comes to taking care of one’s ...

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 ...

A "sick season" preparedness kit full of tissues and cough drops can be beneficial this time of year. However, a simple, common-sense measure can help reduce your risk of plowing through your supplies ...

Alongside necessities like food and toilet paper, liquid hand soap and alcohol-based hand gels are selling fast. While supermarket, drugstore and pharmacy aisles may be bare, one thing always seems to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. This article is more than 5 years old. Effective handwashing ...

What's the best way to teach kids about good hygiene? A science experiment, of course! Amanda Lorenzo, a pre-kindergarten teacher in the Miami-Dade County Public School district, found the best way to ...

It's one of the most common things to hear amidst the coronavirus pandemic — wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds. This is one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) ...

During the COVID-19 outbreak, we’ve been told washing our hands is better than using hand sanitizers. Why? Alton Brown has the scientific answer. Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as ...

Leading hygiene experts are stressing the importance of effective hand hygiene measures and education in schools as children begin returning to educational settings following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Observing Global Handwashing Day has never been more important than during a pandemic that could be stemmed, in part, by everyone taking hand hygiene seriously. Keeping our hands clean is one of the ...