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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently devoted its science blog to the topic of N95 filtering face piece respirator (FFR) usage during pregnancy. Because many women ...

It depends, but you should be able to use N95s and KN95s a few times. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care workers can wear an N95 mask up to five times. But experts say ...

It isn’t the first year that Canadian wildfires have impacted areas of the United States, with billowing waves of wildfire smoke causing record high ratings of poor air quality and unhealthy ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Exposing contaminated N95 respirators to vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) or ultraviolet (UV) ...

Researchers sought to find how many times clinicians can consecutively don face N95 filtering facepiece respirators without compromising the fit of those protective equipment, according to a study ...

More than 11 million counterfeit 3M N95 masks have been seized by the Department of Homeland Security in recent weeks. The recently confiscated masks were headed for frontline healthcare workers who ...

The federal government has issued new guidelines to wildland firefighters for the voluntary use of protective masks. The move ...

The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care workers can wear an N95 mask up to five times. But experts say how often the average person can safely wear one will vary depending ...