Smart Hygiene, Irish healthtech company announces today that it is launching its flagship self-cleaning door handle to the US market. The Loop automated handle kills 99.99 percent of bacteria and ...

Hygiene Handle prototypes were trialed at two major acute NHS hospitals in the Hampshire, U.K., in August and September 2011 and found to prompt a significant increase in hand hygiene compliance, ...

Implementing a door handle that dispenses hand sanitizer increased hand hygiene compliance rates from 24.5 to 77.1 percent, according to a study in American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers ...

A HAMPSHIRE hospital has been trialling an innovative new way to crack down on infection rates. The Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) in Winchester is one of two hospitals which has completed a ...

Door handle for hospitals automatically jets out a sterile gel on being pulled, a novel innovation by an inventor. Aimed at killing germs, the Hygiene Handle is covered in 23 pressure points. Matt ...

A Scottish health and safety specialist has struck a deal to distribute revolutionary door handles that automatically dispense sanitising hand gel. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

An inventor has created a revolutionary germ-killing door handle for hospitals after he noticed people were not using the sanitiser gel. The Hygiene Handle is covered in 23 pressure points that ...

PATIENTS and visitors in one of the country's main private hospitals can now reduce infection risk by simply pulling on a door handle. The new door handle product, which is being trialled in the Mater ...

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre said 1,872 people became ill as a result of norovirus infection by mid-October. The figure for the same period last year was 1,264. Data shows the largest ...