At this point, we know that wearing face masks is key to help stopping the spread of coronavirus. But that doesn’t mean we can’t look good while doing so. It’s important to know what kinds ...

A paediatric nurse has revealed why keeping a red face cloth in your first aid kit is an absolute necessity when it comes to helping children. There are many items you probably keep in your first ...

Disney announced Thursday its new line of non-medical, reusable cloth face masks featuring Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters available to pre-order for the U.S.

A World Health Organization-funded analysis published in The Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal, found that without masks, the risk of transmitting COVID-19 is 17.4%. That drops to 3.1% with ...

Editor’s note: As we will report below, experts agree that face masks do not replace or relieve the need to wash your hands and social distance, and they absolutely do not alone prevent the ...

“Medical-grade masks—which are surgical masks, or higher-level respirators, such as N95 filtering facepiece respirators or KN95s—have been shown to be more effective than cloth face coverings in ...

Read more: 8 COVID-19 Mask Myths to Stop Believing Today. Disposable N95, KN95, KF94 masks vs. cloth masks. According to the CDC's updated guidance, a well-fitting respirator that is approved by ...

Athens seamstresses are sewing cloth face masks to save N95 masks for health care providers in the midst of nationwide and community shortages of personal protective equipment for health care workers.

In medical settings, the CDC says respirators like N95 masks should be stored for more than 72 hours before being reused. A fabric mask can also be decontaminated by leaving it in a paper bag. The ...

Confronting new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus and a winter spike in infections, a number of European countries are beginning to make medical-grade face masks mandatory in the ...