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Hospitals have pushed staff to wash their hands in an effort to curb the spread of dangerous microbes. But patients' hands are infected, too, a study finds, and can spread bugs to other facilities.

Hospitals have pushed staff to wash their hands in an effort to curb the spread of dangerous microbes. But patients' hands are infected, too, a study finds, and can spread bugs to other facilities.

Producers of poultry, cattle and pigs continue to use more antibiotics, according to the latest government data. That's despite more pledges from food companies to sell meat raised without the drugs.

In some ways, all charters are public schools. But there are debates about how they're managed — and who should run them.

The traditional Japanese art of folding paper is now adding grace and ease to the deployment of fragile solar panels, seismometers and other vital instruments in outer space.

Airs Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

The biggest mall operator in the country, Westfield Group, has donated $75,000 to a local nonprofit to fight a shopping center proposed for the shores of a Carlsbad lagoon.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden launch the "It's On Us" campaign aimed at preventing attacks on university and college campuses.

An event in New Orleans this weekend highlighted the wealth of seafood the Americas have to offer — and the endangered state of the small fishers who catch it.

The incoming president has flirted with running for office since the 1980s. His message has been remarkably similar.