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...

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 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...

Trying the old soft soap to prevent disease - If in doubt, wash your hands. This medical maxim, which is being tried out with good success by surgeons (see past stories in Treatment of the Mont...

When doctors just don’t know - My sister has been treated for over five years at hospital for breast cancer. However, early last year, I asked if a doctor from our surgery would cal...

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...

Sugar-coated help from nhs direct - My husband was taken ill with a raging virus. There was no cold or chest infection, yet, by the middle of the following night, he was losing a lot of...

Doctors take a view - On a visit to the GP during the summer last year, my mother let him know that she did not wish to undergo a hysterectomy for her fibroids. ...