An electronic monitoring system Baptist Princeton Medical Center set up last year increased hand-washing by more than 850 percent and reduced hospital-acquired infections by 22 percent in the area ...

If a deadly pandemic doesn't justify demanding accountability for making patients safer by the simple act of hospital clinicians washing their hands, it's hard to imagine what will.

A recent survey of hospitals has shown that the successful implementation of good hand washing practices in hospitals by nurses and doctors is effective in reducing the drug resistant superbugs ...

A new study has found that hand sanitizer may not be as effective as previously thought at preventing the spread of influenza A, the common flu virus.

Air travel pattern simulations and reports on travelers' personal hygiene practices show that hand washing really could slow down the spread of disease.