Recent research suggests electronic faucets are commonly contaminated with Legionella species, indicating opportunities for infection prevention efforts, according to a study published in Infection ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Who could have predicted technology would make washing our hands such a dirty business? A new study of automatic faucets — the type with electronic sensors which detect movement ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Electronic faucets are meant to reduce water consumption and recontamination of hands in the hospital setting, ...

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have determined that electronic faucets are more likely to become contaminated with high levels of bacteria, compared with traditional ...

Johns Hopkins Hospital installed electronic hands-free faucets a couple of years ago both as a water-saving measure and to reduce recontamination on the hands of hospital personnel. However, research ...

A study of newly installed, hands-free faucets at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, all equipped with the latest electronic-eye sensors to automatically detect hands and dispense preset amounts of water, ...

Sorry, germaphobes: Those hands-free, automatic faucets that seem so clean and germ-free might actually be housing more bacteria than the old-fashioned, manual kind ...

A study of newly installed, hands-free faucets at The Johns Hopkins Hospital shows they were more likely to be contaminated with one of the most common and hazardous bacteria in hospitals compared to ...

Hands-free electronic faucets can save a lot of water -- and because you don’t have to touch them with your grubby fingers to turn them on, have widely been assumed to help fight the spread of germs, ...

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have determined that electronic faucets are more likely to become contaminated with high levels of bacteria, compared with traditional ...