Fewer people wear face masks than during the Covid-19 pandemic, but they’re still great personal protective equipment to keep at home. They can help prevent illness and protect the people ...

A simple trick can reveal whether your face mask offers sufficient protection: Try blowing out a candle while wearing it. A good mask should prevent you from extinguishing the flame. The rule isn ...

Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID emergency, here's what the research says about face masks.

Surgical masks are single-use only and are made to protect the wearer's nose and mouth from contact with droplets, splashes and sprays that may contain germs. They also filter out large particles ...

The West Texas measles outbreak has topped 200 cases, and people across the state are looking into preventive measures to ...

Our canine partners are fortunately not affected by the current global pandemic, but it turns out there are other dangers that might necessitate them to wearing masks: Foxtail seeds. After getting ...

Maryland’s proposed Unmask Hate Act could be used to punish mask-wearing protesters for disfavored speech, writes.

While medical workers wear N-95 masks and protective gear to care for ... the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine remains the best tool to protect yourself, with two doses being 97% effective at ...