Compliance with the World Health Organization’s “My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene” approach is low, a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found. Using a modified WHO hand hygiene ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Global Handwashing Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched the first global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings — a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New guidelines for hand-washing in medical facilities, aimed at reducing health care- associated infections, ...

Everyone knows how to wash their hands. Warm water, lots of soap, a vigorous and thorough scrubbing, a good drying. Moms pound it into us from the time we’re toddlers. Why, then, don’t people follow ...

The challenge of improving hand hygiene compliance in hospitals to prevent healthcare-associated infections is not confined to within the borders of the United States. Hospitals in countries all over ...

The guidelines were developed through a collaborative effort led by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Association for Professionals in Infection ...

One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech: hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who, ...

The skin on your hands might be dry or even cracked from the new hand-washing and sanitizing methods to hopefully keep the coronavirus at bay. The WHO has hand-washing guidelines if you’re wondering ...

But in an era of rising rates of drug-resistant infections and overburdened medical staffs, hygiene experts say the best-protected patients are those willing to take safety into their own hands — by ...

DERBY, England, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Global Handwashing Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched the first global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings - a ...