The Healthy on MSN

Research: Wash your hands immediately after touching these 10 things

One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing your hands is ...
Medical Xpress

More than half of adolescents practice poor hand hygiene

Only one in three adolescents are practising appropriate hand hygiene, a new global study involving University of Queensland researchers has found. Dr. Yaqoot Fatima from UQ's Institute for Social ...
Everyday Health on MSN

How to practice good hygiene when you’re living with primary immunodeficiency

Learn how simple personal, food, and home hygiene habits can lower infection risks and keep you strong when living with ...
The Conversation

Yes, we should be keeping the healthier hand‑washing habits we developed at the start of the pandemic

People were washing their hands so much early in the pandemic that sensitive skin and soap shortages were common problems in 2020. All this focus on hand-washing was for good reason. The science ...
DrBicuspid

Answering the most-asked questions from social media: Hand hygiene

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles in which we will bring in an expert to address some of the misinformation we have read in various social ...
NDTV

This Scientist Pioneered Handwashing Practice 173 Years Ago

As the deadly new coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread and hand sanitizers disappear at both retail and online stores, Google researchers have dug out a German-Hungarian physician and scientist ...
The Atlantic

The Great Pandemic Hand-Washing Blooper

Way back in the early, whirlwind days of the pandemic, surfaces were the thing to worry about. The prevailing scientific wisdom was that the coronavirus spread mainly via large droplets, which fell ...