News tagged with hand washing
Badge sensor alerts health-care workers of need to wash hands
Sep 16, 2009 |
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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 ...
To get college students to wash hands requires proper tools, attention-getting tactics
Sep 04, 2009 |
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The path to poor hand sanitation is paved with good intentions, according to researchers from Kansas State and North Carolina State Universities.
Soap-sniffing technology encourages hand washing to reduce hospital-acquired infections, save money
Jun 03, 2009 |
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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 ...
Too many fail to follow hand-washing guidelines
May 30, 2009 |
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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.
Was it the chicken salad or the swim?
Jan 26, 2009 |
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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.
Women have more diverse hand bacteria than men
Nov 03, 2008 |
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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 ...
Hand Washing Saves Newborn Lives
Jul 14, 2008 |
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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 ...
