The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends wearing well-fitted respirators for the highest level of protection, including the N95 masks approved by the National Institute for ...

Visualization of droplet spread when an N95 mask equipped with an exhalation port is used to impede the emerging jet. Credit Siddhartha Verma, Manhar Dhanak, John Frankenfield ...

"We should not being using N95 for routine care; we don't have evidence those are necessary outside of aerosolizing events," said Adalja. "We should protect against droplet infections while using ...

Multiple wildfires are raging in Southern California, and it’s covering cities across the region in ash and smoke. If breathing is a struggle right now, wearing a mask can help. How do fires affect ...

Itchy? Ineffective? Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an alternative to N95 masks that can address ...

An RCT by MacIntyre et al showed that even for infections assumed to be droplet transmitted, N95 FFRs prevent infection, while surgical masks do not. 32 This again points to the droplet paradigm being ...

Today, wearing a modified space helmet on an airplane or subway makes you the person to envy. Masks are everywhere but rocking mission-to-Mars-level protection during the pandemic adds glamour and ...

Pollen particles range in size from 10 to 100 microns (µm). Standard surgical masks block particles as small as 3 µm. N95 masks, as well as other medical masks, can block particles as small as ...

Parts of the Southland are experiencing poor air quality because of raging wildfires. Long-term exposure could negatively affect your health.

To remedy the N95-standard face mask shortage at Japan hospitals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a medical institution and three companies in the Kansai region have teamed to develop and produce ...

Despite debates over masking during the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO report does not provide clear guidelines for under what ...