A hand hygiene poster increased the likelihood men would wash their hands, according to a study in Human Communication Research. Researchers studied the hand washing behavior of 252 men aged 18 to 62 ...

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 ...

Johns Hopkins provides a free, downloadable PowerPoint that features nine colorful posters to help encourage proper hand hygiene and hand washing. Drown a bug, save a life, wash your hands Stop, hand ...

The agency has updated offerings for two of its posters, “Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands” and “One Trillion Germs can Live in a Gram of Poop,” which are now offered in six languages: English, Spanish, ...

A reoccurring theme that has been present during the COVID-19 pandemic is hand-washing. However, we shouldn’t just be washing our hands – we should be practicing proper hand hygiene by scrubbing for ...

QUEZON CITY (PIA) — The Department of Health (DOH) emphasized the importance of hygiene, especially through proper washing of the hands, as the country joins in the celebration of Global Handwashing ...

A World Health Organization-endorsed six-step hand hygiene technique using alcohol-based hand sanitizer gel is more effective at removing bacteria than a three-step technique that the CDC recommends, ...

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 ...

Washing your hands is an important step to not only your health but the health of your community. Share on Pinterest According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), proper hand ...

As Global Handwashing Day rolls around on 15 October, with the theme “Be a Handwashing Hero”, it’s the perfect reminder to pause and ask: are we really as clean-handed as we think? We reached out to ...

It has become a ubiquitous mantra in the time of COVID-19: Wash your hands. Cheap and easy to do, it's one of the few pieces of advice that is essentially without controversy. And yet, hand-washing is ...