The summer before starting his Johns Hopkins career, first-year student Saardhak Bhrugubanda received an email from one of his future classmates. Sophomore Jerry Zhang was designing a new surgical ...

The Hanes mask was added to the FDA Emergency Use Authorization on Oct. 5, 2020, after meeting FDA requirements for fluid resistance (ASTM F1862), flammability performance, particulate filtration ...

Home-made cloth face masks likely need a minimum of two layers, and preferably three, to protect against COVID-19, a new study finds.

Features as simple as changing the angles of the pleats of common surgical masks can dramatically improve fit. This idea is at the heart of Jiangmei Wu ’s folded mask design.

Face coverings and mask to minimise droplet dispersion and aerosolisation: a video case study. Thorax, July 24, 2020; DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215748 ...

If you fall in that category, you may be interested in a contest with a prize of $1,000 for the most creative face mask. Here’s what to know.

A mask brace can make your regular surgical mask almost as effective as an N95, research finds By Hilary Brueck ...

Apple is also working on its own transparent mask to be distributed to employees in the future. Update 2: MacRumors has received additional photos of the Apple Face Mask. Update 3: ...

Nano Air Mask's Pure-MSK sits in a unique place in the spectrum of masks because it's not an N95, but it's also not a completely unregulated or untested mask like most cloth face masks on the market.

As well as the Apple mask, Apple is also disturbing an FDA-cleared transparent surgical mask, the ClearMask, that will allow deaf or hard of hearing people to lip-read and better understand employees.

Vistaprint's new custom mask service lets you flex your creative juices and design your own face covering By Danielle Directo-Meston ... September 7, 2020 Walaiporn Paysawat - stock.adobe.com ...