-- Wash lab coats, preferably in hot water and bleach, at least once a week. One survey found that while hospital workers washed scrubs every one to two days, they washed lab coats every 12 days.

A school board idea would require that high school and middle school dress-code violators to wear a lab coat over their clothes all day if their parents can’t bring acceptable clothing to school.

The Patriot-News, fileHaving dress code violators in Susquehanna Twp. School District don lab coats is not the answer. It wouldn’t be a normal year if local school boards didn’t revive ...

The white lab coat first made its appearance in the late 1800s. Prior to that, lab coats were traditionally beige and worn in, well, laboratories. Doctors, like clergy, dressed in black to reflect ...

Even Lab Coats Could Spread Disease With reports proving that germs can reside on scrubs, ties, stethoscopes, and white lab coats, some have said doctors should just go naked By Elaine Schattner ...

Doctors wearing long-sleeved shirts, ties, jewelry, and watches would be out. Those with white lab coats that are cleaned at least once a week and bare arms below the elbows would be in. Those are ...

The people in lab coats made far fewer mistakes than those without. In another experiment, both halves were given lab coats but one half were told they were actually paint smocks. Again, the ...