From washing hands to washing consciences and polishing reputations

On washing hands.

Washing your hands of respiratory infections? Learn from the internet!

definitely leads to increased risk of death among those with established CVD. In that context, the comment in an accompanying editorial by Sayer and Kirkwood is noteworthy; one way that reduced skeletal muscle strength increases incident CVD and its fatality, may be through it being a biomarker of the ageing process across the life course. Put simply, reduced grip strength might be a marker (or...

Washing our hands of the congenital cytomegalovirus disease epidemic

BACKGROUND Each year in the United States, an estimated 40,000 children are born with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, causing an estimated 400 deaths and leaving approximately 8000 children with permanent disabilities such as hearing or vision loss, or mental retardation. More children are affected by serious CMV-related disabilities than by several better-known childhood maladies, ...

Reducing perioperative infection is as simple as washing your hands.

ANESTHESIOLOGISTS have long focused on patient safety, particularly in airway management, neurologic injury, and cardiac outcomes. More recently, anesthesiologists have begun to recognize their role in infection prevention as well. Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) increase morbidity and mortality, pain, cost, and duration of stay. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the C...

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