People can be gross. They wipe their noses with their hands and then grip door handles on their way in and out of the public bathroom. Their loose shoelaces drag through puddles of unmentionables on ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A study says using a hand dryer spreads 1,300 times as many germs around bathrooms as drying with a paper towel does. When media outlets started reporting this a couple weeks ...

Public washrooms carry a lot of bacteria and germs, no matter how clean it may look. This is a known fact. But did you know that the hand dryers we use in these restrooms are not as safe as we think ...

Newly published research finds the noise from bathroom hand dryers may be harmful to children's ears. And the study's author can speak from personal experience. Thirteen-year-old Nora Keegan, from ...