In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) established May 5 as World Hand Hygiene Day — a day to remind people across the ...

Healthcare is a service industry. If we forget this, and focus only on the medical problem at hand, we risk patient ...

Hand-washing works One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing ...

New research has warned that home washing of healthcare uniforms may not eliminate harmful bacteria, raising risks for ...

The Leapfrog Group is out with its biannual report card on hospitals' safety and qualify efforts, and it's clear that ...

More than 90% of dermatology clinicians surveyed by Leo Pharma say their patients with moderate to severe chronic hand eczema ...

Ninety-five percent (95%) of U.S. dermatology providers surveyed agreed moderate-to-severe chronic hand eczema (CHE) has a ...

Ghanaians have been advised to make hand hygiene a part of their daily lifestyle to break the cycle of transmission of infections and diseases in the country ...

Thirteen Long Island hospitals received a top grade from The Leapfrog Group for patient safety, including, clockwise from top ...

Leapfrog bases its grades on 22 safety measures, including death rates among surgical patients with serious but treatable ...

The Gibraltar Health Authority will promote Glove Awareness from May 2 to 6 and mark World Hand Hygiene Day on May 5 as part of its annual campaign to encourage best practices in infection prevention ...

An outbreak of MRSA circulated in the NICU at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital for more than three years and infected 94 babies, ...