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More than twice as many U.S. college and university campuses were smoke free or tobacco free in 2017 as in 2012, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation (ANRF)

Flushing a toilet can generate aerosolized droplets ranging from 0.3 µm to 3 µm in size, which can rise to a height of at least 1.52 m in the toilet environment.1 A pathogenically contaminated toilet will hence produce a significant proportion of

Flushing a toilet can generate aerosolised droplets ranging from 0.3µm - 3µm in size, which can rise to a height of at least 1.52m in the toilet environment1. A pathogenically contaminated toilet will hence produce a significant proportion of

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital respiratory protection program (RPP) leaders have increasingly used reusable respiratory protective devices (RPDs) to protect health care workers (HCWs) from respirable infectious hazards. Such

The actor was found dead in his California home on Thursday after friends and business associates could not reach him, the authorities said.

A prestigious World Health Organization (WHO) appointed panel on Wednesday urged bold action to end the COVID-19 crisis, while also calling for the UN agency to be given greater authority to respond more quickly to future threats.

The United States’ top medical official said on Thursday that the US will now join the World Health Organization’s global initiative to help poorer nations overcome COVID-19, in addition to a raft of new measures in support of access to universal

Infection Preventionists (IPs) are responsible for selecting effective disinfectants to decrease the risk of healthcare-associated infections (HAI). Ultraviolet radiation (UV-C) devices are commonly used for this purpose but there is a lack of an

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page e6-e20, January 2022.