Most germs in public toilets spread through hands and air rather than toilet seats, making hygiene far more important than avoiding sitting.

A bout with a cold or the flu can really take you down. To stay healthy, you need to avoid nasty bugs. But that’s not always easy. Germs are everywhere, and there are plenty of ideas about how to get ...

Dec. 3 -- WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- New research provides evidence that the average cigarette is crawling with germs, including bacteria that cause respiratory disease. But as one ...

Toilet seats are blamed for almost everything, so they tend to be cleaned more often than most household surfaces. Meanwhile, ...

Balance must be maintained among the trillions of microbes that live in the gastrointestinal tract. The gut microbiome has to host enough beneficial microbes to help control the levels of potentially ...

Which tabletop item is germier than a toilet seat? Dec. 30, 2010 — -- Here at "Good Morning America" we have tested just about everything for germs – from pools to playgrounds – even the lemons ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...