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With the COVID-19 epidemic held at bay in China and the resumption of work and production gearing up, the demand for face masks is increasing again. Also, with the spread of the pandemic around the ...

An employee inspects face masks at a workshop of the Naton Medical Group in Beijing, capital of China, March 11, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] With the COVID-19 epidemic held at bay in China and the resumption ...

Duke University Health System researchers have devised a way to decontaminate the N95 masks that hospitals nationwide have been clamoring for during the coronavirus pandemic. Duke University Health ...

The Central Government Building No. 5 that houses the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is seen in this file photo. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- As the number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections in ...

With shortages of N95 face masks persisting nationwide, healthcare facilities are scrambling to find ways to clean and treat the masks for reuse to protect doctors and nurses most at risk of exposure ...

Nurses and other front-line clinicians are raising concerns about a decontamination system used to disinfect N95 masks amid the pandemic, according to The Wall Street Journal. Battelle Memorial ...

DOCTORS and nurses are being forced to reuse masks and to hold their breath when carrying out medical procedures due to a lack of protective equipment, it has been claimed. Dr Rinesh Parmar, chairman ...

Doctors and nurses are being forced to reuse masks and to hold their breath when carrying out medical procedures due to a lack of protective equipment, it has been claimed. Dr Rinesh Parmar, chairman ...

Facing a dire shortage of protective face masks for health care workers, administrators at the University of Nebraska Medical Center decided they had no choice. As Coronavirus Looms, a Hospital Begins ...

Nurses at Santa Monica hospitals say they are being asked to reuse protective masks as they treat a swell of coronavirus patients and are demanding that their employers and the government provide an ...