Here's how to remove your fabric face masks safely and how to clean them with handwashing or a washing machine ...

A nebulizer is a machine that turns liquid medication into an inhalable mist and is used for people with respiratory ...

Japanese researchers showed that masks can offer protection from airborne coronavirus particles, but even professional-grade coverings can't eliminate contagion risk entirely.

A South Korean company has invented a battery-powered filtered face mask designed to reduce annoying problems associated with conventional designs, such as breathing difficulties and fogged-up glasses ...

Re: “State bans most masks for officers on duty” (Page A1, Sept. 21). Federal immigration agents want masks to “protect their families.” What about the immigrant families they terrorize? What about ...

California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed ...

Zookeepers spent three years teaching 16-year-old Mahiri how to confidently use an inhaler, which Banham Zoo designed to ...

The federal government has issued new guidelines to wildland firefighters for the voluntary use of protective masks. The move comes as knowledge of long-term health risks faced by such workers – ...

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service has announced it is reversing a ban on federal firefighters wearing masks and will give crews protective N95s as they battle increasingly intense fires across the ...

U.S. Forest Service firefighter Alan Gudino, right, shields his face while battling the Madre fire in San Luis Obispo County in July. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) The U.S. Forest Service has ...

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 ...