On Jan. 5, Brown University Health — the largest hospital system in Rhode Island — announced that all of their facilities would require patients, visitors and staff to wear a N95 or Level 2 surgical ...

Nationally, we are seeing very high levels of influenza and, again, a growing wave of COVID-19 infections. A new variant of influenza A H3N2 called subclade K is driving some of this epidemic.

Patients, visitors, and staff at several Rhode Island and Massachusetts medical facilities are now required to wear masks at all times due to an uptick in respiratory virus cases in the area. Brown ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — As transmission rates of influenza and other respiratory viruses increase, Brown University Health is instituting a mask requirement at its hospitals. Starting Thursday, Dec.

From last week's Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decision in Smith v. State, written by Judge Scott Walker; the Court of Criminal Appeals is Texas's highest court for criminal cases (the Texas Supreme ...

Masks saved an untold number of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now, the resulting plastic pollution from those masks is concerning scientists. A new study found that disposable face masks, or ...

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...

A new technical paper titled “Impact of Sn Particle-Induced Mask Diffraction on EUV Lithography Performance Across Different Pattern Types” was published by Hanyang University and Paul Scherrer ...

Has your COVID-era mask been a constant companion or is it collecting dust? Americans’ relationship with masking has been fraught (and politicized) since the beginning of the pandemic, a time when ...

This week marks five years since March 13, 2020, the day President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency over the novel coronavirus outbreak. The White House issued the President's ...

Brown University Health is making people mask up in its hospitals again — but newly acquired St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River and Morton Hospital in Taunton are exempt. According to a statement from ...

PROVIDENCE – Visitors and staff members at some major Rhode Island hospitals, including Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital, will have to wear masks to prevent the spread of ...