President Donald Trump has questioned whether injecting people with disinfectants and exposing patients' bodies to UV light could help treat the coronavirus. The Reality Check team has been ...

After the recent pandemic, our use of disinfectants has increased, but are our efforts to create sterile urban environments backfiring? A new study published in the journal Microbiome has ...

US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body. He also appeared ...

It can also work as a natural disinfectant if you have been scratching ... It contains camphor and thymol, which can relieve itching, says Dr Mittal. You can crush fresh basil leaves and apply ...

My laboratory is focused on evaluating safer approaches to disinfection ("green" or low toxicity disinfectants.) Safer approaches include saturated steam vapor, activated water, thymol and other plant ...

Thyme, no less beneficial, is a treasure trove of essential oils like thymol, carvacrol, and cymol, which act as disinfectants, relaxants, and bactericides. They thin bronchial secretions, improve ...

They can survive drying out as well as most chemical treatments and disinfectants, including bleach. Humans get infected if they inadvertently eat soil or other material that has become ...

After the recent pandemic, the use of disinfectants has increased, but are efforts to create sterile urban environments backfiring? "Built environments offer distinct conditions that set them ...