A shortage of N95 masks in 2020 led the CDC to craft guidelines for healthcare workers who needed to reuse them for multiple shifts, but a new study, published Jan. 26 in JAMA, has found reuse of ...

At least 10 nurses are heading back to the COVID-19 ward this week after being suspended for demanding protective respirator masks, the National Nurses United union said Tuesday. Their Southern ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A former infectious disease nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging she was fired after warning coworkers that masks the hospital provided did ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nurses, researchers and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might ...

Two weeks after Daly City’s Seton Medical Center was designated a COVID-19 hospital and saved from closure, nurses are sounding the alarm that they are ill-prepared to take in a projected wave of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal authorities are investigating a massive counterfeit N95 mask operation in which fake 3M masks were sold in at least five states to hospitals, medical facilities and ...

How does California plan to stem a personal protective equipment shortage? Hospitals will sterilize previously worn N95 respirator masks and reuse them. Across California, hospitals are readying ...

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 ...

I'll never understand why masking isn't required - or even just strongly encouraged - in all medical facilities, or, at the very least, in hospitals. A recent study published in the peer-reviewed ...

CNN — The nurses of Harlem Hospital have had enough. "This isn't a sob story. This is not a story about desperation, this is a story about the fight for our lives. And what you see here today is that ...

Nurses, researchers and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens ...