RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — It’s been nearly two full years since North Carolina had a COVID-19 mask mandate. Since then, one question has lingered: Did it work? A total of 39 states, including North ...

A few months after the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020 and things had opened up again slightly, Palos Park audiologist Kristen Conners noticed something unusual. She was testing more patients ...

Three years after a global pandemic prompted public health officials to recommend widespread mask-wearing, social media users warned that people who wore masks unknowingly subjected themselves to ...

A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology have released a prototype for a new type of advanced, smart mask that could be used to detect a range of health conditions, including ...

As the majority of the U.S. population embraces N95 respirators and cloth masks, people with pre-existing respiratory issues are at a crossroads. Do they don the masks to protect themselves and others ...

President Donald Trump said in a second interview Wednesday that he has no problem wearing masks, something he’s been criticized for not personally doing during the coronavirus pandemic. Trump spoke ...

At-home LED face masks look like they came straight out of a “Star Wars” movie, but these devices are less sci-fi and more straight-up science-based. But they do have origins in real-life space travel ...

Masks saved an untold number of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now, the resulting plastic pollution from those masks is concerning scientists. A new study found that disposable face masks, or ...