Hand sanitizer is not a replacement for soap and water, but something is better than nothing in a pinch. Washing your hands may seem like a simple thing, but not everybody remembers to do it.

Almost half of hospital visitors skip washing their hands after using the toilet. If that’s happening in hospitals, imagine ...

Then, you’ll deposit those germs on anything you subsequently touch.Not washing your hands allows these suckers to stick around, and that’s bad news if you want to prevent illness.

20% of adults in the U.S. don’t wash their hands because they simply choose not to. To conduct their survey, the NFID partnered with NORC (formerly known as the National Opinion on Research ...

Some Americans are still not doing their due diligence when it comes to washing their hands. That’s according to a new survey that found nearly half of its respondents forget or choose not to ...