The summer before starting his Johns Hopkins career, first-year student Saardhak Bhrugubanda received an email from one of his future classmates. Sophomore Jerry Zhang was designing a new surgical ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HanesBrands (NYSE:HBI) today announced that a proprietary surgical face mask developed in conjunction with North Carolina State University, the University of ...

Question: Is it better to wear a mask than not wearing one at all? Answer: That depends on the mask. When researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and California Baptist University ...

Vice wrote about research that assessed the effectiveness of popular "hacks" meant to improve the fit of KN95 and surgical masks. The researchers evaluated seven different "fit hacks," some of which ...

The omicron variant of COVID-19 has health authorities encouraging folks to upgrade from cloth masks to N95s, KN95s or at the very least, surgical masks. Dr. Elizabeth Matsui, an allergist, ...

A new study that examined the effects of mask-wearing on the spread of COVID-19 found that even partial adoption helps to limit the spread. The study, led by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale ...

Face masks are a crucial first line of defense against the spread of Covid-19, but that doesn't mean they're all created equal. Cloth and N95 masks with filtration valves may be more comfortable for ...

As new variants of the coronavirus spread, masking and distancing are more important than ever. Double masking may help, but mask fitters likely offer even better protection. Here are experts' ...

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