CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - School nurses take care of sick and injured students but also play a role in teaching, and one Charleston County nurse wants to continue teaching a valuable lesson to her ...

Children attending the science minicamp at the YMCA of Dodge County on Thursday learned about germs and the importance of hand hygiene from a local expert. Kim Queisser is a registered nurse with ...

One of the clear lessons from a pandemic is that we need safe facilities for health care, work, shopping, learning, worship and entertainment, writes Ken Blaker. Getty Images When President James ...

When Bridget Pfaff was a student at Evergreen Elementary in Holmen, she undoubtedly learned a few lessons about hand-washing and preventing illness. These days, Pfaff is the clinical manager of ...

A friend of mine asked if he was suffering from germaphobia. He still had concerns about COVID. We talked about the almost 600 deaths everyday from COVID. He mentioned the new variants. He reminded me ...

Just like students in a university classroom, bacteria are adept at learning and responding to new information. Exactly how bacteria respond to environmental forces can be difficult to study when ...

Kids are curious and like learning about strange things. For example, did you know that tarantulas will fling some of their barbed hairs off their back at a potential predator? Or that some germs are ...

Recently, the Cracking the Code team — researchers from Texas Tech and media professionals from KQED — published our report on public understanding of germs (viruses and bacteria). Among other ...

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 ...