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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Welcome to Ritual, Be Well Philly’s new column of essays about the low-tech, purposefully inefficient things we do that pleasurably slow us down. From taking the long way home to hand-washing dishes, ...

That strange ritual your great-grandmother swore by for staying healthy might have seemed like pure superstition, but it could have been based on legitimate medical principles that science didn’t ...

(RNS) — Historians tend to take seriously the contention that Jewish communities were less affected by the plague itself, if not from the hatred it unleashed, because of their ritual hand-washing.

Heart surgeons meticulously scrub their hands for precisely one minute before each operation. This scientifically backed ritual, using antimicrobial agents, effectively reduces harmful microbes ...

A fountain that serves as a memorial to survivors of the Holocaust was pushed over Sunday night or Monday morning in Santa Rosa, Calif., according to local news reports. The fountain, which also ...