Standard surgical masks don’t fully seal around a person’s face, allowing for more participle exposure. But simply adding two rubber bands may improve the seal and offer N95 respirator-level ...

This is one mask Joe Biden won’t want to wear. A Japanese company has sold around 1,000 full-rubber face masks in the likeness of the U.S. president-elect — right down to his hand-painted blue eyes ...

SAITAMA, Japan — While much of the world anxiously awaits what happens under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, one factory manager in Japan is all smiles. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and when maximum protection is needed against air-born infections, the N95 respirator has remained the gold standard of personal protective equipment. However, it is ...

A simple modification to a surgical mask using rubber bands can improve its protective seal against particle exposure to the level of an N95 respirator, a study suggests. Throughout the COVID-19 ...