A nurse is accused of stealing jewelry from hospital patients, in one case allegedly using hand sanitizer to remove rings from the fingers of a dementia patient, dislocating a finger, police said ...

An 11-year-old cancer survivor is now facing another recovery after she reportedly erupted in flames while at Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland, Ore. In an incident unrelated to her ...

At hospitals around the world, staff dutifully slather on hand sanitizer to prevent the spread of infections. But now, at least one type of bacteria in hospitals appears to be growing more ...

A New Jersey school district discovered sanitizer that cleans the school's vendor machines was given to at least 25 students who drank from milk cartons.

Don't toss your bottle of hand sanitizer just because it doesn't kill 100% of germs. Here's how sanitizer compares to soap and when best to use it.

State police said an 8-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital after drinking hand sanitizer on Saturday night. Police said it happened around 7:15 p.m. on Connellsville Road in Fayette City Borough.

WASHINGTON --To fight infections, hospital workers can hit the hand sanitizer a hundred times or more a day. Now, the government wants more study of whether that is safe and how well it actually ...

Amid the pandemic, hand sanitizer has become a fixture in Americans' daily lives, but it's not without risk, two physicians told The Boston Globe.

In the fight against coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, hand sanitizer is really not as important as many claim.

After a fire caused serious burns to an 11-year-old girl at Portland's Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon State Fire Marshal investigators will determine whether hand sanitizer played a key role.

Update, Feb. 20, 2013: A mix of hand sanitizer, olive oil and static electricity was apparently to blame for a hospital fire that burned an 11-year-old Oregon girl earlier this month. Oregon State ...