Hamilton: Hospital visitors and staff are greeted with hand sanitizer dispensers in the lobby, by the elevators and outside rooms as reminders to wash their hands to stop infections, but just how clean are patients’ hands?

Washington: Next to lung cancer, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women, according to the American Cancer Society. That’s why so many medical professionals encourage women to get mammograms, even though the tests are imperfect at best: only a minority of suspicious mammograms actually leads to a cancer diagnosis that results in lots of needless worry for women and their families not to mention the time, discomfort and expense of additional tests, including ultrasounds and biopsies.

New Delhi: Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, has said that universal access to mental health care is a specific goal of the government. It would find substantial articulation in the evolving National Health Policy and National Health Assurance Mission (NHAM), he said.

Washington: For some, getting a mammogram is a routine. For others, maybe not so… But in either case, there’s a certain amount of nervousness the patient experiences as she awaits the results.

Manhattan: Changes to a supplemental nutrition program are improving the number of fruits eaten daily by children, but kids and adults still aren't reaching the recommended daily intake amounts. A Kansas State University human nutritionist says to reach that amount, you need to focus on lunch.

Washington: The prevalence of abdominal obesity and average waist circumference increased among US adults from 1999 to 2012, according to a study in the recent issue of JAMA.