Personal Hygiene:
Hygiene, Personal Hygiene
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Nov 21st, 2008
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.
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Nov 7th, 2008
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.
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Oct 16th, 2008
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.
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Sep 18th, 2008
The Life Care Dialysis Center, at 221 West 61st Street, Manhattan is closed because of unsanitary conditions causing health risk to patients.
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Sep 10th, 2008
Now that school’s begun, parents should check their young children for head lice on at least a weekly basis.
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Sep 2nd, 2008
Hospital acquired infections are a serious problem that the quality improvement movement is shining a light on. Each year 2 million Americans acquire an infection while hospitalized. We used to accept these rates as just unfortunate events. Here are 12 steps you can take to reduce your risk of hospital infections.
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Aug 11th, 2008
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.
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Jul 21st, 2008
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.
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Jun 30th, 2008
Clean hands are the most effective tool in the fight against healthcare-associated infections.
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Jun 13th, 2008
While some rap lyrics may be down and dirty, students at Sampson G. Smith Intermediate School kept them clean - as a way to teach their classmates about the benefits of good hand hygiene.
