Not everything in your laundry needs to be washed with hot water, but these things definitely do. Make sure you know what they are to ensure a deeper clean.

Your kitchen is dirtier than your bathroom. Not by a little; by a lot. According to science, these are the 10 germiest and ...

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 ...

Balance must be maintained among the trillions of microbes that live in the gastrointestinal tract. The gut microbiome has to host enough beneficial microbes to help control the levels of potentially ...

Becky Rapinchuk, founder of Clean Mama and author of Simply Clean and The Organically Clean Home Alicia Sokolowski, president and co-CEO at AspenClean Aim to steam clean your mattress one to two ...

To avoid germs, Dr. Charles Puza recommends wiping the top of aluminum cans before drinking from them, forgoing lemon wedges in drinks at restaurants, not touching door handles and disinfecting your ...

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 ...

Socializing children at a young age helps them develop greater diversity in their microbiome, according to an analysis of baby-to-baby transmission of gut bacteria ...

Scientists has found that firmer, lower water content hydrogels limit bacterial growth, with implications for designing antibacterial coatings, infection models, and advanced medical materials.

Some of the worst germs out there aren’t just making us sick for a short while—they’re also laying the groundwork for cancer. A new report from scientists at the American Association for Cancer ...