In the last few years, masks have become an integral part of life. However, confusion regarding what type of mask actually prevents airborne infections has persisted. Although medical masks and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed sex and gender differences across every aspect of our lives including in the availability and design of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care ...

Eight months into the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic and employers in both healthcare and non-healthcare settings are grappling with requirements for employees’ use of personal protective equipment ...

Former and current federal firefighters say they welcome the proposed changes but worry that the wrong respirator or mask ...

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has put the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), including face masks, under the global spotlight. However a paper published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association ...

PPE falls under the definition of a “medical device” under Section 201(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when it is “intended ...

ACCORDING TO THE FBI, THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STOLE MORE THAN 13,000 SURGICAL MASKS INTENDED FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY AND A TIME WHEN THEY WERE TOUGH TO ...

Though mask restrictions are easing across the country (and around the world), officials say you shouldn’t be taking off your masks just yet, especially if you’re in crowded places or starting to ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Nurse Sarah Simons was in disbelief over HCMC’s solution to a shortage of N95 respirator masks. The hospital had a cache of thousands of them in storage. The problem: they had been there ...

Face masks for the general population and N95 respirators as part of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare professionals are both a vital part of protection against viral transmission ...

With air pollution soaring to hazardous levels across major Indian cities, KARAM Safety, a leading global PPE player and fall ...

The nurse keeps her mask in a Tupperware container. In an unwelcome daily ritual, she dips her face in the plastic tub to put on and take off her N95 respirator, careful not to touch the front in case ...