Masks will be provided to visitors when they arrive at any of Brown's health care facilities, which include Rhode Island ...

All patients, visitors, and staff at Brown University Health hospitals are required to wear masks amid an uptick in ...

A large, randomized study from Stanford (Calif.) Medicine and New Haven, Conn.-based Yale offers the strongest evidence yet that wearing surgical masks can reduce community spread of COVID-19. The ...

Some medical systems are temporarily requiring patients and visitors to wear face masks. The move is being made because there ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Recently, I underwent breast cancer surgery at my local hospital. Imagine my surprise when I found several staff members who weren’t wearing masks in the operating room. Later I ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are reinstating COVID-19 mask mandates as the JN.1 variant becomes the dominant strain spreading throughout the country. Mask mandates have long been controversial since they ...

Domestic suppliers of N95 and surgical masks are crumbling as hospitals return to buying cheaper products abroad, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 4. About 70% of the startup mask companies ...

Beginning Thursday all staff members providing direct patient care at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington will be required to wear masks. Staff at the hospital must wear a mask when ...