Hand sanitizers made with at least 60% alcohol help kill gems, according to the CDC. These are the top options from Purell, ...

A bout with a cold or the flu can really take you down. To stay healthy, you need to avoid nasty bugs. But that’s not always easy. Germs are everywhere, and there are plenty of ideas about how to get ...

Parents have been coughing up lots of questions about whether or not their child who has had a cough and fever for several ...

Dec. 3 -- WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- New research provides evidence that the average cigarette is crawling with germs, including bacteria that cause respiratory disease. But as one ...

Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now ...

Think your home is clean? These 8 everyday spots are dirtier than a toilet seat and can make you sick if ignored. Experts ...

We handle them several times a day and take them wherever we go, yet many of us don't make the effort to keep this common ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...