Disposable gloves and aprons are used to protect health professionals and patients from the risks of infection. However, it is important to use them appropriately or they may increase patients’ risk ...

Health care workers caring for infectious patients sometimes make mistakes when removing personal protective garments, resulting in contamination of clothes or equipment with antibiotic-resistant ...

The indiscriminate use of non-sterile gloves in hospitals and clinics is significantly adding to environmental pollution, ...

Changing the type of medical gloves used by healthcare workers could help reduce the spread of germs in hospital intensive care units, according to research published in the Journal of Hospital ...

A hospital ought to be the last place to get a life-threatening infection, but it happens. A new study helps explain why. Researchers asked real hospital workers to remove gowns and gloves smeared ...

Last week the Bournemouth Daily Echo replied to “A letter from a frontline nurse in the UK’s Royal Bournemouth Hospital” published by the World Socialist Web Site on April 14. The Echo’s article was ...

As a doctor, Mary O’Riordan knows the guilt that medics feel about the plastic they discard every working day. Irish hospitals generate a staggering mountain of 50 million discarded plastic aprons ...

Zohaib Begg achieved his own goal of donating more than the National Cathedral. A 7-year-old in Virginia has found a special way to show his appreciation to the hospital workers fighting on the front ...

The family of an NHS worker who died after getting coronavirus claim his death could have been prevented if he had been given the "correct" personal protective equipment (PPE). Thomas Harvey, a ...