One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing your hands is ...

Washing your hands in the morning is not enough. We all need to be washing our hands multiple times a day, according to Dr. David Itkin, infectious disease expert at Portsmouth Regional Hospital.

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 been ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- We all know hand washing is important, but many of us could do a better job scrubbing more often and the right way, according to five medical organizations that have come together to ...

As a physician, I am glad for the mobile health-monitoring applications that allow me to help my patients sleep better, exercise better and eat better. Yet I was a little offended when I learned of a ...

Doctors are warning parents to watch for hand, foot and mouth disease, a viral infection common in children that can spread quickly in daycares and households. Hand, foot and mouth disease is usually ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 2,425 confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. Five of those cases are in Iowa.Millions of monkeypox vaccines are on their way to curb the spread of ...