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Reliance on gloves leads to poor hand hygiene
19th of January 2012
Healthcare workers who wear gloves when treating patients are less likely to wash their hands between patients, according to a British study.
Experts acknowledge that wearing gloves is appropriate when workers know contact with bodily fluids is likely, but the study suggests healthcare workers appear to be substituting glove use for additional
Passengers sue over smelly ship
17th of January 2012
Unhappy passengers who sailed on a cruise ship are taking legal action against the cruise line because of unpleasant smells and poor hygiene.
The claims are being made by 205 holidaymakers who sailed on Thomson Cruises' Thomson Dream between May and October 2010, immediately following its acquisition from Costa Cruises. They relate to to issues
Hospital-related infections are the US’s sixth leading cause of death
13th of January 2012
Around 100,000 people in the US die of hospital-related infections each year - making HCAIs the nation's sixth biggest killer.
The US government has now made it mandatory for hospitals to reveal exact figures of hospital-acquired infections if they want continued government funding for medical care.
Latest figures have revealed that even
Latin America sets new world record for hand washing
11th of January 2012
The importance of hand hygiene has been highlighted by inhabitants of Latin America who have set a new world record for hand washing.
A total of 740,870 people chiefly from Peru, Argentina and Mexico washed their hands at the same time to mark Global Handwashing Day in October. Guinness judges have since been travelling to each of the countries
World’s most valuable toilet
10th of January 2012
A Japanese toilet manufacturer has created the world's most valuable toilet, in order to please the ‘god of lavatories'.
Toilet maker INAX teamed up with an Austrian jeweller to create the toilet - studded with more than 72,000 Swarovski crystals. It's been on display in a showroom in Tokyo's top shopping district.
Kazuo Sumimiya, director
Lidless toilets spread illness, says study
9th of January 2012
Always put the lid down on the toilet. That's the conclusion of a new study examining the amount of Clostridium difficile bacteria that fly into the air and contaminate surfaces when a toilet is flushed without the lid on.
The research was carried out by the Microbiology Department at Leeds General Infirmary in the UK and published in the
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