This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Today, Global Handwashing Day is being celebrated in 70 countries around ...

This seemingly simple habit of rushing to wash hands after walking through the door isn't about cleanliness at all—it's a sophisticated psychological ritual that reveals how certain people create an ...

Why did we start washing our hands after going to the bathroom? We all know that washing your hands it’s one of the best ways to prevent germs from spreading. But until relatively recently hand ...

(JTA) — At the height of the pandemic, I remember maddeningly washing, scrubbing and antibacterial-spritzing my hands in a bathroom along the New Jersey Turnpike. I then Olympic speed-walked to my car ...

One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech: hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who, ...