The next time you clean up with a hand dryer in a public bathroom, spare a thought for this experiment which made some grim ...

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

Mobile phones can act as a “trojan horse” for pathogenic microorganisms, according to the authors of one research paper about ...

They are always on the move. And our hands? They're like one big freeway, moving germs toll-free from location to location outside and inside your body. But when you wash your hands, you create a ...

and also use them on my hands after I touch a strange surface. Keeping your hands clean is the best way to avoid becoming sick from these kinds of germs." ...

Merely stepping into a bathroom ensures you'll pick up germs on your hands, so not washing them risks spreading these germs to everything you touch afterwards. But what if the tools you're using ...

Hand sanitizer is a disinfectant and therefore kills germs. But it doesn't do anything to physically remove germs from your skin like soap and water do. "Soap is a detergent, which is why it gets ...

Some germs could be introduced by you when cooking. Do you wash your hands when you get home and before you prepare food? When was the last time you cleaned your phone – especially important if ...