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

Tiny organisms are everywhere, but the ones considered “germs" includes a number of species of bacteria and viruses. You might also find disease-causing fungi and protozoa in a home, especially ...

Germs: Call them bacteria, call them viruses: You'll find them pretty much everywhere. Most of them are harmless, but one percent of all those germs can actually cause anything from a runny nose ...

In the ongoing battle between you and household germs, you may think germs have the advantage. Unlike you, they can be just about everywhere at once. And when it comes down to hand-to-hand combat ...

One of the most fascinating – and under-reported – aspects of marathon training is its tendency to turn perfectly normal people into paranoid germophobes. This thought occurred to me the other ...

Germs Are Everywhere -- Really As you hit the road for summer travel, get in touch with those unsuspected surfaces that are breeding grounds for illness.

People are very aware of the germs that lurk in public places like grocery stores and airports. But less thought goes to the potentially harmful microbes in private spaces like your bedroom. “We ...

The first, about hand washing rates in hospitals, found that “compliance rates…are only around 40 percent.” Oy. Another study, which put hospital garb—doctors’ lab coats, nurses ...

Studies suggest that you’re overlooking some of the major places that bacteria lurks. What’s the dirtiest, germiest place in your home? Does the bathroom have the most germs? What harbors ...

Grains of sand and lint can easily get stuck in your phone's ports and crevices. To remove it, we recommend you use Scotch ...