http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Emotions frame the establishment of "truth". This is the central hypothesis of a new project supported by the FWF. The object of the study is a dispute about hygiene during childbirth, which took place in the middle of the 19th century between Viennese gynaecologist Ignaz Semmelweis and his colleagues. While his views were considered to be very questionable at the time, they are now deemed to be standard practice in every hospital. An evaluation of current and historic literature will now show how discourses on establishing this "truth" were informed by emotions. The aim of the project is to develop a new theory on the poststructuralist perspective of politics. http://phys.org/news275041951.html Other Sciences Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:32:37 EST news275041951 Graphic messages and reminders that use a shock-and-shame approach may get more people to wash their hands, according to a Kansas State University professor and his colleagues. http://phys.org/news219396456.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:27:47 EST news219396456 According to Wikipedia, handshaking was practiced as long ago as the 5th century BCE. That's 25 centuries of passing germs around by hand. http://phys.org/news211041007.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:30:22 EST news211041007 Keyboards located in triage and registration areas were found to be more contaminated with bacteria than those in other areas of the Emergency Department at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, according to a new study conducted by the hospital. http://phys.org/news194765017.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:50:01 EST news194765017 Washing your hands "wipes the slate clean," removing doubts about recent choices. That's the key finding of a University of Michigan study published in the current (May 7) issue of Science. http://phys.org/news192371772.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 May 2010 14:00:16 EST news192371772 Scientists are reporting dramatic new real-world evidence supporting the idea that hand washing can prevent the spread of water-borne disease. It appears in a new study showing a connection between fecal bacteria contamination on hands, fecal contamination of stored drinking water, and health in households in a developing country in Africa. The study is in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology. http://phys.org/news192283956.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 May 2010 13:30:01 EST news192283956 Practicing non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as hand-washing and mouth covering may help limit the transmission of the pandemic flu, but more research on these measures is critical according to a new study appearing in the May issue of AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC). The study presents findings which show that although significant knowledge was gained regarding NPIs and transmission of pandemic flu in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded studies, key concerns and gaps in the research related to the acceptability and protective efficacy of these measures remain. http://phys.org/news191760401.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:00:01 EST news191760401 Diners who are skeptical of the food safety practices in ethnic restaurants have new research to back up some of their assumptions. http://phys.org/news185543913.html Other Sciences Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:58:47 EST news185543913 (PhysOrg.com) -- A UCL-led study has identified key demographic and psychological factors that may predict protective behaviours during pandemics. http://phys.org/news184267811.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:40:01 EST news184267811 A wireless, credit-card-sized sensor that can detect whether health care workers have properly washed their hands upon entering a patient's room is being studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. The device could greatly reduce the number of hospital acquired infections nationwide since most are transmitted through contact due to poor hand-washing practice. http://phys.org/news172334382.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:40:01 EST news172334382 The path to poor hand sanitation is paved with good intentions, according to researchers from Kansas State and North Carolina State Universities. http://phys.org/news171284361.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:03:54 EST news171284361 Call it a Breathalyzer for the hands. Using sensors capable of detecting drugs in breath, new technology developed at University of Florida monitors health-care workers' hand hygiene by detecting sanitizer or soap fumes given off from their hands. http://phys.org/news163256409.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:00:50 EST news163256409 Everyone knows how to wash their hands. Warm water, lots of soap, a vigorous and thorough scrubbing, a good drying. Moms pound it into us from the time we're toddlers. http://phys.org/news162884616.html Medicine & Health Sat, 30 May 2009 06:44:15 EST news162884616 A new study finds swimming, having a private well or septic system, and other factors not involving food consumption were major risk factors for bacterial intestinal infections not occurring in outbreaks. http://phys.org/news152207240.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:54:17 EST news152207240 A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates that not only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, women have a significantly greater diversity of microbes on their palms than men. http://phys.org/news144952075.html Chemistry Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:27:55 EST news144952075 Washing hands with soap and water in preparation for delivery significantly reduced the risk of death for infants within the first month of life, according to a study in Nepal conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. http://phys.org/news135270036.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:00:36 EST news135270036