A large, randomized study from Stanford (Calif.) Medicine and New Haven, Conn.-based Yale offers the strongest evidence yet that wearing surgical masks can reduce community spread of COVID-19. The ...

Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for ...

**Note: the release below is a special early release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, 15-18 April). Please credit the congress if you ...

During the first 10 months of Omicron activity the real-world benefit of mask-wearing in isolation was likely to be, at best, modest, said UK researchers. Mask wearing has been part of a package of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patients, visitors, and staff at several Rhode Island and Massachusetts medical facilities are now required to wear masks at all ...

They’re everywhere — and they’re nowhere. Masks are stuffed into purses and coat pockets, glove boxes and book bags. They occasionally litter a parking lot or sidewalk and pop up unexpectedly amid a ...

Domestic suppliers of N95 and surgical masks are crumbling as hospitals return to buying cheaper products abroad, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 4. About 70% of the startup mask companies ...

PROVIDENCE – Visitors and staff members at some major Rhode Island hospitals, including Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital, will have to wear masks to prevent the spread of ...

A man receives a COVID-19 test in the eastern suburbs of Sydney in September 2022. [AP Photo/Mark Baker] An administration worker at a large New South Wales (NSW) regional public hospital has ...

This draft recommendation does not specify what kind of mask to wear — either looser-fitting surgical masks or more fitted and tightly woven N95 respirators. The decision frustrated some advocates for ...