1.   An investigation into the safety and effectiveness of antibacterial soaps is underway by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

2.   And feet freshly washed with antibacterial soap left A. gambiae completely cold.

3.   Answers to questions on vitamin supplements and antibacterial soap.

4.   Avoid using regular soaps, antibacterial soaps and liquid soaps, which are drying.

5.   Gretchen Worden, who directs the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, says that even the notion of antibacterial soap got its start then.

6.   In a hospital or other medical center, the stain might come from a substance that requires a more potent cleaning with alcohol or antibacterial soap.

7.   In trying to combat the antibacterial obsession among consumers, some scientists point to the history of pHisoHex, an antibacterial soap containing hexachlorophene.

8.   Medical authorities say antibacterial soaps do have their place, such as in hospitals and restaurants where the level of sanitation must be at its highest.

9.   Q. I have read that antibacterial soap can harm a septic tank.

10.   The American Medical Association is so concerned that it has asked the US Food and Drug Administration to speed up its rule-making process for the antibacterial soaps.