Running from patient room to patient room, it can be surprisingly easy for doctors and nurses to forget to wash their hands, especially if they’re dealing with an emergency. Hospitals have be… ...

Nurses are more conscientious handwashers than doctors, finds a study in this week's Christmas issue of the BMJ. Hand washing is a quick, cheap and easy way of preventing the spread of infection.

A nurse’s Facebook rant about the “cesspool of funky flu” in emergency room waiting areas is getting a lot of attention.“Wash your stinking hands,” Katherine Lockler says in a six-minute ...

I worried that the blood infection was my fault because I didn’t insist the nurse wash her hands as soon as I saw her rub her nose.