The World Health Organization has created posters to help organizations improve hand hygiene — one showing proper hand washing steps and one providing proper hand ...

Rubbing alcohol is used for a range of first aid and household-cleaning purposes. Its high alcohol content means it’s an excellent sanitizer, killing bacteria and viruses, and you can even use it to ...

The Massachusetts Office of Health and Human Services provides a free, downloadable poster to encourage proper hand hygiene. The poster, titled “‘Your health is in your clean hands,” reminds staff ...

The Centres for Disease Control recommends that people use hand sanitizer when soap and water aren't available. Washing your hands is considered better for hand hygiene but a sanitizer is more ...

Rubbing alcohol-it’s that little bottle you probably have tucked away in your medicine cabinet. But did you know it's more ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced recalls of several hand sanitizers due to the potential presence of methanol. Methanol is a toxic alcohol that can have adverse effects, such as ...

March 22, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Rates of surgical site infection after the use of plain soap and water or an alcohol-based rub for surgical hand preparation were comparable (about 8%) in a rural ...

Due to the spread of Covid-19, you now likely have a bottle (or a few) of rubbing alcohol in your medicine cabinet as your go-to disinfectant for killing germs. After all, rubbing alcohol is ...

Both hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol can kill germs. Generally, you can use rubbing alcohol on the skin and some surfaces while you can only use hydrogen peroxide on surfaces. Rubbing alcohol ...

Tuesday, Oct. 15 is Global Handwashing Day. Hand washing, while essential to infection control and prevention, suffers from perennially low compliance rates, sometimes as low as 40 percent in ...

September 21, 2007 (Chicago) — Old-fashioned soap and water are better than antiseptic wipes and alcohol rubs in removing Clostridium difficile, according to a study by McGill University researcher ...