Closing the toilet lid before flushing may help limit the spread of Clostridium difficile in patient rooms, suggest the findings of a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. For ...

Flushing a toilet can generate fine air particles that may linger in the air or land on nearby surfaces, and a new study shows that those aerosols also can spread coronavirus particles, The New York ...

Could the next potential 'superbug' that overruns hospitals come from their bathrooms? Researchers from the National Health Service in Scotland believe so. A new study has revealed that hospital ...

When it comes to toilet etiquette, do you put the lid down before you flush or leave it up? If you said leave it up, the results of a new study by researchers at the Asan Medical Center in South Korea ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A toilet in a hospital. [Getty Images] Could the next potential ‘superbug’ that ...