Germs are everywhere, and especially dangerous when a doctor’s bill could blow up your budget. Alcohol can age hands, ignite near flame and make kids sick. Gels are just a mess. Remi-D dispenses with these maladies with subtle scents, convenience and all-natural technology. Since hand washing is an important step to cut the risk of [...]
Every day, over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation and nearly 1.2 billion practise open defecation, the riskiest sanitary practice of all, according to a report issued today by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. The programme is the official UN mechanism tasked with monitoring [...]
Your hands pick up all kinds of germs and many diseases such as Ringworms,spreading through our hands. So keeping your hands clean will help in reducing your risk of getting and spreading many types of contagious diseases such as Common Cold. Germs spread through hand contacts directly or indirectly in many ways. If you visit [...]
Now that school’s begun, parents should check their young children for head lice on at least a weekly basis, according to Dr. Annette Bredthauer, the state’s public health veterinarian with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. “Head lice are common among elementary school students because they have a lot of physical contact with [...]
The Life Care Dialysis Center, at 221 West 61st Street, Manhattan is closed because of unsanitary conditions causing health risk to patients. State Health Department began inspecting the center in mid August and found out that the hospital does not properly follow hygiene requirements while serving patients. Inspectors found that employees did not regularly wash [...]
The Health Protection Agency has welcomed this year’s Global Handwashing Day initiative which aims to raise awareness about the role handwashing plays in public health. Professor Mike Catchpole, Director of the Health Protection Agency’s Centre for Infections, said: “It is well known that hand washing is one of the most important ways of controlling the [...]
Although infection control has been substantially ramped up in Canadian hospitals since the SARS crisis of 2003, resistant bacterial infections post-SARS are multiplying even faster, a new Queen’s University study shows. Led by Queen’s epidemiologist Dr. Dick Zoutman, the national survey is a six-year follow-up to a study that was undertaken in 1999, prior to [...]
As the world celebrates World Toilet Day today, sanitation experts have called for the end of the flushing dunny to save water and provide fertilizer for crops. Leading health advocates have called for the use of “dry” toilets which separate urine from faeces and remove the need to flush. Speaking at the recent World Toilet [...]
According to the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health, proper hand washing is the simplest and most effective preventive measure individuals can take to reduce the spread of colds, flu, skin infections and diarrhea. Public health experts indicate that most infections are spread by picking up germs on the hands from contact [...]
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is joining other U.S. public health organizations in urging everyone to take their health into their hands by observing National Handwashing Awareness Week, December 7-13. Created in 1999 by physician Dr. Will Sawyer due to a flu vaccine shortage in Cincinnati, National Handwashing Awareness Week is now observed across [...]
