Keeping hands clean through improved hand hygiene is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. On Global Handwashing Day, the CDC Foundation is pleased to announce a new phase in a program aimed at improving hand hygiene to combat infection. On any given day,…
Salad is popular with people who want to maintain a balanced and healthy diet. Salad varieties are often offered for sale ready-cut and film-packaged. It is known that these types of fresh produce may be contaminated with bacteria that are relevant from the point of view of hygiene. A working group led by Professor Dr.…
Investigations of lead poisoning cases in New York City (NYC) have found high levels of lead in certain spices purchased abroad, reports a study in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, part of a special supplement devoted to Lead Poisoning Prevention. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer. The…
Christmas is a great time to indulge in plenty of food and perhaps even a tipple to wash it down with, but statistically it also seems to be a great time to pick up a food-borne infection. If you have the joy of manning the kitchen this year then some simple tips surrounding the 3…
Dear friends / Dear customer, How time flies. The Christmas holiday & year 2019 is coming. Did you finish all preparation for Christmas holiday? Here’s 10 little tips for keep holiday season great, just for reference: 1.Don’t sit down all day 2.Go easy on the booze 3.Don’t give yourself a Christmas stuffing! 4.Keep colds at…
The scientific name is folliculitis, and it often starts with damage to your hair follicles either from a blockage or from friction caused by clothing or shaving; hence, the term barber’s itch. The small, white-headed pimples around one or more hair follicles can occur almost anywhere on your body, but they are especially common on…
The average adult uses seven different skin-care products each day, including fragrances, astringents, moisturizers, sunscreens, skin cleansers, hair care items, deodorants/antiperspirants, and hair and nail cosmetics. Sometimes, even after years of use, a cosmetic product can cause an allergic reaction. If a problem arises, the American Academy of Dermatology urges you visit a dermatologist, who…
Richard Kanowitz’s 4-year-old daughter, Amanda, died of the flu, barely 72 hours after she first complained of feeling ill. Amanda came home from preschool on a Friday afternoon with a slight cough and fever, her father recalled. Her symptoms progressed slowly over the weekend and, by Sunday, she was sluggish, still feverish and now vomiting.…
Medications, personal hygiene, mask-wearing and quarantines all help prevent the spread of viral infections such as the flu, and researchers now suggest that the latter three strategies should be given more attention in plans to deal with pandemics. In an update of a 2007 study, Dr. Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group…
Keeping hands free of germs is one of the simplest and most effective ways to keep from catching the flu, a cold or some other infectious disease, experts say. “Disease transmission is hand-to-hand combat, at least for infectious diseases,” said Dr. Thomas Weida, professor of family and community medicine at Penn State University’s Hershey Medical…