“A well-fitted N95 would be the highest quality filtering mask that you could wear,” she says. But “the best mask you can ...

A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Grenoble Alpes—Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has shown that from the age of two, children ...

Amid a shortage of medical-grade masks, federal guidelines now recommend everyone wear face coverings out in public. Here's how to make your own cloth mask.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly a year ago, the respected research collaborative Cochrane drastically reinterpreted its own "systematic review" of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on masking in response to ...

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 ...

P95 and N95 are rating classifiers for masks manufactured to keep people from inhaling dust and other small particles in ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- The case is growing stronger that Americans should wear face covers when they venture outdoors. On Thursday, Bay Area public health officials recommended the use of cloth ...

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 ...