Health experts counter that people who suffer from hyperacusis are often aggravated by noises that are far quieter than a hand dryer. "You'll talk to a woman who complains the refrigerator is ...

The researchers found that jet air dryers dispersed ... This caveating and counter-caveating also crops up when interrogating another measure of hygiene and hand-drying — the accumulation ...

Captioned "urghh, don't use a hand dryer 😱🦠", the viral video has 4.7m views at the time of writing along with 181k likes, 72k shares and thousands of comments.

And if hospitals can't halt the plumes, their next best step may be to ditch high-powered hand dryers. Bathrooms with jet dryers can host five times more bacteria on their floors than those ...

My 5-year-old twins are terrified of hand dryers. When they enter a public restroom, the first thing they do is size up the drying options. If it’s a paper towel dispenser, they visibly relax ...

Dyson Airblade hand dryers, increasingly ubiquitous in public bathrooms, propel airborne bacteria off the hands in levels up to 27 times higher than paper towels, new research shows. "The results ...

The answer is not so straightforward. Public bathrooms are notoriously germy, which makes choosing between drying your hands ...

One recent study, which carried frightening images like the one below and found that hand dryers increased the spread of bacteria, happened to be funded by the European Tissue Symposium ...

but it seems that jet-air hand dryers may actually not be as clean as you think. A new study has revealed that jet-air hand dryers spread more germs than paper towels. Researchers from the ...

Seriously. This is not a drill. But what to do with those wet hands? Putting them under a hand dryer could end up spreading bacteria in public restrooms, according to research conducted by ...