Hospitals across the U.S. are reinstating COVID-19 mask mandates as the JN.1 variant becomes the dominant strain spreading throughout the country. Mask mandates have long been controversial since they ...

The gaming app is called EZ Induction and transforms a scary anesthesia mask into a fun game controller. The last thing a child might see before surgery is a scary anesthesia mask. To help calm that ...

Imagine being a child being prepped for surgery, surrounded by scalpels and strangers wearing masks, hats and gloves. An anesthesia mask hovers over your face in a brightly lit operating room. Sounds ...

Physicians from Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center created a mask for patients that can protect clinicians from potential contaminants, such as coronavirus particles, that patients ...

With COVID-19 hospitalizations steadily inching up in the U.S. this summer, some hospitals, schools and businesses are reinstating mask mandates. Two new COVID-19 variants—EG.5 and BA.2.86—have ...

Guess what happened within a few weeks of Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center lifting its face mask requirements. The answer rhymes with headache, as in a Covid-19 outbreak. And now, the ...

Latoya Hawkins wears a mask as her 4-month-old daughter is examined at MLK Community Hospital in January. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals ...

Boise, Idaho — Moments after hearing an Idaho hospital was overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients and looking at sending people as far away as Seattle for care, members of a regional health department board ...

Citing “growing evidence,” that he is now immune to the virus, Krabbenhoft said “for me to wear a mask defies the efficacy and purpose of a mask and sends an untruthful message that I am susceptible ...