WASHINGTON -- Americans are putting themselves at risk of contracting a foodborne illness by not washing their hands properly when handling food, according to new research. Participants in a recent ...

Health authorities warn the run on face masks and sanitizer may be misguided. As fears of a coronavirus pandemic sweep across the nation, Americans have been buying up face masks, hand sanitizer and ...

174 years ago in the city of Vienna, a young Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis stumbled across a link between pathogens on the hand and the spread of communicable diseases. Beyond the medical ...

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