NHS Grampian has asked all visitors to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) and Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital (RACH) to wear masks.

Domestic suppliers of N95 and surgical masks are crumbling as hospitals return to buying cheaper products abroad, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 4. About 70% of the startup mask companies ...

Starting Thursday, Dec. 18, Level 2 surgical masks must be worn by patients, staff and visitors during direct interactions.

Flu cases have more than doubled in a week in Scotland, with hospital admissions rising by 70%. Staff in hospitals in Scotland are asking visitors to wear face masks amid a deadly spread of flu across ...

Global medical technology company Halyard Health, formerly Kimberly-Clark Health Care, has introduced a new line of fluid-protective specialty surgical face masks to its product offerings. Although it ...

During the first 10 months of Omicron activity the real-world benefit of mask-wearing in isolation was likely to be, at best, modest, said UK researchers. Mask wearing has been part of a package of ...

As cases of respiratory viruses rise in Rhode Island, the state’s largest health system is requiring masks at its hospitals ...

**Note: the release below is a special early release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, 15-18 April). Please credit the congress if you ...

The short answer is that the evidence remains surprisingly weak. Studies conducted before the COVID pandemic generally found ...

Patients and visitors at Farnham Hospital are being urged to wear face masks as NHS trusts across Hampshire and Surrey reintroduce infection-control measures in response to a sharp rise in flu cases.

One woman spent 12 hours sewing masks for hospital workers. A California woman spent 12 hours straight sewing masks for those on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic -- and she's not stopping ...