Since its implementation in 2009, the National Australian Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI) has seen significant, sustained…
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Low hand hygiene compliance in ICUs
Healthcare workers on intensive care units (ICUs) are regularly missing opportunities to clean their hands during…
Applying hand rub with three steps for 15 seconds as effective at reducing bacteria as WHO-recommended 6 steps for 30 seconds
A shortened 15-second application time and a simpler three-step technique for use of alcohol-based hand rub…
Cancers ‘change spots’ to avoid immunotherapy
Cancers can make themselves harder for new immunotherapies to see by 'changing their spots' -- and…
Auction bids decline with intensity of competition
People bid less in auctions that have more bidders, new research suggests.
Cognitive functioning does not predict weight-loss outcome for adolescents
Young people with cognitive impairments and developmental disabilities, including Down syndrome, have similar weight-loss trajectories to…
A specific gene could play a major role in reducing brain swelling after stroke
Inflammation gone awry in the brain due to stroke, head injury or infection causes damage; in…
‘Snowball chamber’ helps researchers use supercooled water to search for dark matter
After watching YouTube videos of people supercooling water in a bottle and then triggering it to…
The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world
Physicists have shown that Markov processes, widely used to model complex systems, must unfold over a…
Celebrity fat shaming has ripple effects on women’s implicit anti-fat attitudes
Comparing 20 instances of celebrity fat-shaming with women's implicit attitudes about weight before and after the…