http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A wireless, credit-card-sized sensor that can detect whether health care workers have properly washed their hands upon entering a patient's room is being studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. The device could greatly reduce the number of hospital acquired infections nationwide since most are transmitted through contact due to poor hand-washing practice. http://www.physorg.com/news172334382.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:40:01 EST news172334382 The path to poor hand sanitation is paved with good intentions, according to researchers from Kansas State and North Carolina State Universities. http://www.physorg.com/news171284361.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:03:54 EST news171284361 Call it a Breathalyzer for the hands. Using sensors capable of detecting drugs in breath, new technology developed at University of Florida monitors health-care workers' hand hygiene by detecting sanitizer or soap fumes given off from their hands. http://www.physorg.com/news163256409.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:00:50 EST news163256409 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. http://www.physorg.com/news162884616.html Medicine & Health Sat, 30 May 2009 06:44:15 EST news162884616 A new study finds swimming, having a private well or septic system, and other factors not involving food consumption were major risk factors for bacterial intestinal infections not occurring in outbreaks. http://www.physorg.com/news152207240.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:54:17 EST news152207240 A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates that not only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, women have a significantly greater diversity of microbes on their palms than men. http://www.physorg.com/news144952075.html Chemistry Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:27:55 EST news144952075 Washing hands with soap and water in preparation for delivery significantly reduced the risk of death for infants within the first month of life, according to a study in Nepal conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. http://www.physorg.com/news135270036.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:00:36 EST news135270036