On Jan. 5, Brown University Health — the largest hospital system in Rhode Island — announced that all of their facilities ...

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 ...

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

Pharmacists are raising concerns that a national shortage of protective face masks could cause a rise in medication errors and make it hard to ensure drugs remain sterile, NPR reported. Pharmacists ...

Masks will be provided to visitors when they arrive at any of Brown's health care facilities, which include Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital and ...

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 ...

Global health experts have called on the WHO to update guidelines and recommend respirator-grade masks for routine use in ...

Hospital systems in Rhode Island are requiring masking following a spike in cases of respiratory illnesses such as influenza and RSV. Infectious diseases doctors have been warning that the prognosis ...

During the first 10 months of Omicron activity the real-world benefit of mask-wearing in isolation was likely to be, at best, modest, said UK researchers. Mask wearing has been part of a package of ...

**Note: the release below is a special early release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, 15-18 April). Please credit the congress if you ...