Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for ...

Repositioning face masks with metal nosepieces below patients' mouths may not be enough to prevent artifacts from forming during extraoral imaging, according to a letter to the editor published on ...

Before a CDC advisory committee votes whether to update its 13-year-old infection control rules in healthcare settings, critics of the guidance’s draft say the proposal is confusing and too lenient, ...

Is it possible to acquire extraoral images of patients while they are still wearing masks for protection against COVID-19? It's possible, if you take a few steps to counter artifacts that might ...

The cold and flu season of 2022 has begun with a vengeance. Viruses that have been unusually scarce over the past three years are reappearing at remarkably high levels, sparking a “tripledemic” of ...

The lack of adequate personal protective equipment in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is leading hospitals around the country to buy N95 respirator masks that are faulty and use them, The Wall ...

In a recent rapid review published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Journal, researchers presented live, updated evidence of the effectiveness of masks in preventing severe acute respiratory ...

People who said they always wore some type of face mask indoors were less likely to test positive for COVID-19 compared to those who did not, though high-quality N95 respirators and KN95 were better ...

Are face masks more effective than vaccination at preventing COVID-19 infection? That is the implication of a new public service announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...