Two weeks after Daly City’s Seton Medical Center was designated a COVID-19 hospital and saved from closure, nurses are sounding the alarm that they are ill-prepared to take in a projected wave of ...

The efforts will increase critical equipment as hospitals combat the coronavirus The U.S. military is 3D-printing face shields, designing reusable plastic N95 masks and sewing surgical masks to ...

The study, led by researchers at Mayo Clinic Phoenix and the University of Tulsa (Okla.), involved 100 participants who successfully completed quantitative fit testing while wearing a 3M 1870+ ...

Bioengineers at Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up with clinicians at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital to design N95 masks that can be sterilized for reuse. As ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: With all the misinformation flying around, can you comment on whether it's a good idea to wear N95 masks if you have them on hand? A: N95 masks are the standard for personal protective ...

In the wake of the Palisades fire affecting Los Angeles, the importance of wearing protective masks cannot be overstated. With smoke and harmful particulates filling the air, safeguarding your lungs ...

Though statewide coronavirus mask mandates have expired, many people have opted to continue wearing them to keep germs and other airborne viruses at bay. And with face masks now a common wardrobe ...

The short answer is that the evidence remains surprisingly weak. Studies conducted before the COVID pandemic generally found ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A former infectious disease nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging she was fired after warning coworkers that masks the hospital provided did ...

With flu season arriving early and NHS leaders encouraging people with symptoms to wear masks in public, a question arises: ...

Children, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with asthma, COPD, heart disease, or other respiratory conditions are ...