Nurses who wash their uniforms at home may be unknowingly contributing to the spread of deadly hospital superbugs, warns a new study. Home washing machines fail to remove antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...
More than 60 percent of hospital nurses’ and physicians’ uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of ...
Researchers from Denver Health and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center sought to compare whether there was a significant difference in the degree of bacterial contamination of physicians ...
Researchers have found that exactly half of all the cultures taken in a study, representing 65 percent of the RN uniforms and 60 percent of the physician uniforms, harbored pathogens, according to ...