Many people choose to wear an N95 mask as a way to reduce exposure to harmful viruses and airborne toxins or pollutants.

Though statewide coronavirus mask mandates have expired, many people have opted to continue wearing them to keep germs and other airborne viruses at bay. And with face masks now a common wardrobe ...

TL;DR? Let us break it down for you: The CDC's official guidelines suggest that N95 masks are the most effective, with KN95 masks coming in at a close second and cloth face masks providing the least ...

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still short of N95 respirators (i.e. masks) -- a product most people probably knew nothing about before this year. Here in California, we've been ...

The efforts will increase critical equipment as hospitals combat the coronavirus The U.S. military is 3D-printing face shields, designing reusable plastic N95 masks and sewing surgical masks to ...

If you are looking for added protection for keeping healthy when you travel, these are the best face masks to buy for travel, especially on airplanes.

With the Environmental Protection Agency issuing air quality warnings for several states over the smoke from the Canadian wildfires, it’s important to understand and obtain the correct protection. One ...

After two long years, we're finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to COVID-19, with some states and doctors setting their sights on the endemic phase. We’re still living in ...

For the second day in a row, the eastern U.S. was enveloped in a hazy beige smog that blocked the skies and sun of early summer. Countless tiny particles from the raging Canadian wildfires—measuring 2 ...

Bioengineers at Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up with clinicians at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital to design N95 masks that can be sterilized for reuse. As ...

If you’ve put your COVID face masks into retirement, it’s time to start wearing them again if you live in a large region of the United States that could potentially be affected by wildfires — ...