So, about masks -- they do next to nothing if you don't wear them properly. Yep, even the cloth coverings touted as the best thing since social distancing have instructions. We've laid them out below, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that you should still wear a mask to prevent COVID-19, but ...

If there are gaps either side of your face mask when you’re wearing one, it’s probably not doing an awful lot to keep your germs under wraps. That’s according to a preprint study from University of ...

“Using an at-home mask is like going to the gym,” says Shereene Idriss, MD, a board-certified dermatologist and founder of Idriss Dermatology in NYC. To truly see any skin care benefit, you need to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Layer a cloth mask on top of a surgical or medical procedure mask. What to do: Layer a cloth mask on top of a surgical or medical ...

While it's still important to wear a face mask in many situations, that mask won't be fully effective if it doesn't fit properly. That's why a team at MIT has designed a device to assess how well a ...

The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke. The U.S. Forest ...