Hand dryers in public bathrooms are great for the environment but blow gross bacteria onto your hands that can easily make you sick. Here's what to use instead. Your hands can be exposed to an average ...

One of the best parts about a trip to the hair salon is kicking back while a stylist blows out your hair. But blow-dry services may look different across the country as salons begin the reopening ...

"I [fell] on top of the dryer, like it was under me, and I was in a weird, contorted placement and the dryer was still running,” the woman recalled Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

CHARLOTTE, NC -- A photo of a petri dish filled with bacteria is going viral because the spores reportedly came from a hand dryer in a public bathroom. The photo posted to Facebook in January is ...

A South Carolina woman is describing the moment she woke up to find her blow dyer burning her hand, which had to be amputated. Watch full story above.Mary Wilson, of James Island, said the last thing ...

When the worldwide SARS scare was fresh, a Capitol employee asked the North Dakota Health Department how long germs stay alive on a surface. Epidemiologist Kirby Kruger's response was e-mailed to ...

Your hands can be exposed to an average of 18 to 60 bacterial colonies when placed under a dryer for just 30 seconds. Without a dryer, hands collect less than one colony in two minutes. For the study ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A photo of a petri dish filled with bacteria is going viral because the spores reportedly came from a hand dryer in a public bathroom. The photo posted to Facebook in January is ...