While washing your hands, take a moment to reflect on things you are grateful for. This practice shifts focus from stressors ...

While washing one’s hands has always been important for personal and public health, the coronavirus pandemic demonstrates that doing so can actually save lives. It will help enormously in preventing ...

Thorough handwashing with soap and water is an immediate preventative measure for the spread of bacteria and viruses. “Wash your hands.” You probably heard it thousands of times growing up. Even as an ...

Washing your hands is a given if you want to avoid infection—but it's especially important after touching these top 10 ...

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 ...

A cross-sectional study was conducted in 5 randomly selected villages to assess prevalence of good hand-washing practice (GHP) among adolescents, and describe the social determinants. The prevalence ...

Childcare centers constitute another environment in which stringent hand washing practices are de rigueur. The likelihood of having children transmit illnesses to one another, to teachers, and/or to ...

My father the doctor maintained that hand-washing was our family’s single greatest obligation to one another and to the world. Is there any hope we’ll all keep doing it? By Nancy Stearns Bercaw My ...

Regarding "The fight to bare hands" (June 28): For many years, Oregon has required that food handlers wash their hands twice: first in the restroom and a second time when arriving at their workstation ...

Singer Neil Diamond is encouraging his followers to wash their hands and practice social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. He posted a video to YouTube and Instagram Sunday where he sings a ...