My 5-year-old twins are terrified of hand dryers. When they enter a public restroom, the first thing they do is size up the drying options. If it's a paper towel dispenser, they visibly relax and go ...

hand dryer may be installed to dry the hands with warm air. A 13-year-old girl living in Canada studied the noise of a hand dryer for four years, and published a paper in a journal that indicated that ...

Hand dryers are ubiquitous in public restrooms, but according to research recently published in the Canadian journal Paediatrics & Child Health, the noise they make may be harmful to children's ears.

A teenager from Canada has discovered through painstaking research that many of the hand dryers you find in public restrooms may be dangerously loud for children's ears. The study by Nora Louise ...

Newly published research finds the noise from bathroom hand dryers may be harmful to children's ears. And the study's author can speak from personal experience. Thirteen-year-old Nora Keegan, from ...

When Nora Keegan would visit a restroom and use a hand dryer, she often thought it sounded too loud. Sometimes she’d notice other children stuffing their fingers in their ears to quiet the roar of the ...

Can hand dryers damage kids' hearing? Thirteen-year-old Nora Keegan measured the decibel level of a traditional hand dryer with a sound meter to see if damage may be occurring to people, particularly ...

ON SOUTH SUNSET IN OLATHE. WASHING YOUR HANDS FOR 20S KEEPS THE GERMS AWAY. BUT WHEN YOU GO TO DRY THEM IN SOME PLACES, ARE YOU INVITING ANOTHER HEALTH HAZARD? KMBC NINES DONNA PITMAN IS WORKING TO ...

CALGARY—When Nora Keegan first started researching the noise levels of hand dryers in public washrooms after hearing kids complain the sound hurt their ears, it was part of a project for a local ...