To limit this corrosive action, it is key to immediately and thoroughly rinse tools with clean water after using bleach.

Due to the spread of Covid-19, you now likely have a bottle (or a few) of rubbing alcohol in your medicine cabinet as your go-to disinfectant for killing germs. After all, rubbing alcohol is ...

Isopropyl alcohol (IPA; aka 2-propanol, but never “isopropanol”) is a common solvent, reagent, and disinfectant. It is flammable, with a characteristic odor that is similar to ethanol’s, but more ...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections were cut in half with the implementation of an alcohol-impregnated disinfection cap compared with standard hub cleaning protocol, according to a study in ...