Wash your hands: - The doctor won't, so you'd better - Possibly the single greatest advance of modern medicine was a discovery made around 1850. Doctors were spreading disease because they weren't washing...

Hospital infections: It’s up to the patient to tell the doctor to wash his hands, says health chief - Hospital doctors in the UK so rarely wash their hands while on their rounds that patients are being encouraged to have their own hand-gel ready by the...

Mrsa: now wash your hands - It s been said that the greatest medical breakthrough was to get doctors to wash their hands an observation that was made around 140 years ago Sadl...

Now don't wash your hands - Re Treatment of the Month and doctors not washing their hands (WDDTY vol 10, no 7), it reminded me of a friend who attended an extremely expensive fer...

Children who avoid modern medicine are healthier - Children who eschew many of the staples of modern medicine, such as vaccines and antibiotics, are less likely to develop atopic allergies, according t...

Medical breakthrough could save thousands of lives - very schoolboy is told by his mum to wash his hands after going to the toilet. Unfortunately, it’s a lesson that hospital doctors still need to learn...

Hospital Errors: They’re still common, staff reveals - Life-threatening errors in hospitals are still common. A survey of hospital staff in the UK reveals that a third had witnessed a serious error or ‘ne...

Now wash your hands: our children may do it, but our doctors won't - Possibly the greatest breakthrough in hospital care was the novel idea that doctors should wash their hands after seeing a patient It was an observa...