Did you know that nearly 80% of infectious diseases are spread by contacting things around you? We touch money and door handles, we share pens to sign documents in banks and whatnot. Oh, and we love ...

Arizona could soon have a state law to mandate the kind of advice your mother would give you: Wash your hands after petting farm animals. Sen. John Kavanagh says it makes common sense. But the ...

Back on a typically chilly CNY winter evening, February 16, 1976, also a Monday night, and a game squeezed in between a quick road trip to Colgate the two days prior, and a game at Rutgers two days ...

Dear Heloise: My husband is in an assisted living facility. I keep an erasable white board in his room. When a visit or trip is planned, I write it on the board. It helps him remember, and the staff ...

The wildly contagious norovirus — marked by vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach pain — is beginning to spread in the U.S. Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared ...

If you're at a gathering this holiday season, two infection prevention specialists at Meritus Health have some advice for you. "Pass the gravy, not the flu," said Cathy Ware, BSN, RN. Tommie Blalock, ...

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