Handwashing is second nature for most, but that doesn’t mean it’s always done correctly. Follow these five simple steps from ...

The World Health Organization has created posters to help organizations improve hand hygiene — one showing proper hand washing steps and one providing proper hand ...

— -- For doctors and nurses, hand hygiene is supposed to be as intuitive as breathing. But is this behavior really second-nature, or do health care workers need supervision to keep their hand ...

A study in the American Journal of Infection Control found nurses’ hand hygiene compliance rate in Brazil between June 2006 to August 2009 was 77.9 percent, compared with 44.6 percent among physicians ...

More than 70 people got sick in a norovirus outbreak on a Royal Caribbean cruise, marking 19 outbreaks of gastrointestinal ...