Masks saved an untold number of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now, the resulting plastic pollution from those masks is concerning scientists. A new study found that disposable face masks, or ...

Has your COVID-era mask been a constant companion or is it collecting dust? Americans’ relationship with masking has been fraught (and politicized) since the beginning of the pandemic, a time when ...

Seattle startup Singletto is marketing a medical mask that includes its Oxafence technology, which is proven to kill viruses. (Singletto Photo) COVID-19, at the moment, might feel safely in the ...

Members of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) voted Friday to defend what some have called weak standards of infection control for healthcare settings, agreeing ...

In a recent study published in BMJ, a team of Norwegian researchers conducted a pragmatic randomized trial to examine whether wearing surgical face masks while in public spaces resulted in a lower ...

Nurses, researchers and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reusing single-use surgical masks for up to a week had no major impact on skin or upper respiratory tract ...

As thick smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets much of the Northeast, many people are once again donning masks -- but which is best to protect against the tiny particulates in wildfire smoke? Two ...

People online are touting the results of a Cochrane review to incorrectly claim that it shows masks “don’t work” against the coronavirus. But the primary conclusion of the review is that it’s ...

Thermal degradation is a chemical process that involves breaking down the polymer molecules in a material through the application of heat. This process converts the long polymer chains into shorter ...