Washing your hands is essential to good hygiene, stopping germs in their tracks. Washing your hands limits the transfer of bacteria, viruses, and other germs, according to the Mayo Clinic. The Centers ...

Handbasins are hotspots for dangerous microbes that can cause illnesses including pneumonia, Legionnaires' disease and wound infections, a new study warns. The environmental health study found ...

Experts say there is an array of options when it comes to hand soaps, and some labels can be misleading.

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 ...

Dirty towels can carry a huge variety of microbes, and they’ve even been linked to spreading infectious disease. You can’t ...

A company called Method is recalling a "small number" of hand soap bottles sold in the United States and Canada because they might contain bacteria. The bacteria isn't dangerous to most healthy people ...

Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers ...

A lot of people aren’t washing their hands, and they’re at a restaurant and money is going back and forth,” says Susan ...