Glove Use In Healthcare (WHHD 2025)

Each year, the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign works toward the ongoing goal of maintaining global awareness about the role of hand hygiene in...

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Best Paper award for OPHARDT research team

A team of scientists working on an innovative project was honoured at the 31st International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES): The real-time detection of pathogens during hand disinfection. Three leading...

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World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 is all about knowledge

“Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important?”. This is the official slogan of World Hand Hygiene Day 2024, which will be celebrated as always on May 5. 2024 marks the 15th anniversary of World Hand Hygiene Day. In...

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Hand hygiene dispenser: manual or touchless?

When purchasing soap and hand sanitizer dispensers, hygiene managers and others often ask how they should be operated. In addition to the “classic” manual operation, for example via an arm lever, so-called touchless dispensers are...

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The future of hand hygiene according to the WHO

For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has published an agenda for research priorities in the field of medical hand hygiene until 2030. To coincide with World Hand Hygiene Day, the WHO published an important document in early May...

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Are our hands cleaner now?

How has hand hygiene behaviours changed during the COVID-19 pandemic? A study sponsored by European Tissue Symposium took a close look at this very issue. They found that people are indeed washing their hands more frequently, are concerned about the...

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Global study on MRSA in nursing homes

Arguably the best-known hospital germ, MRSA continues to pose major challenges to healthcare systems worldwide and is a particular risk in immunodeficiency settings. A recent study looked at MRSA in nursing homes for the elderly. Thanks in part to...