Almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic, some frontline health care workers are still experiencing shortages of personal protective equipment, known as PPE. Dr. Ann Victory worked at MidMichigan ...

The use of PPE is often necessary to protect employees from injury or illness caused by exposure to chemicals and other workplace hazards such as: biologicals, radiation, physical, electrical, ...

Researchers in Iran sought to quantify headaches related to personal protective equipment (PPE) among frontline health care workers. Headaches resulting from personal protective equipment (PPE) are ...

AMES, Iowa – A multidisciplinary team of researchers is working to improve the design, function and safety of personal protective equipment, or PPE, for health care workers. The team, led by Guowen ...

QINHUANGDAO, CHINA - JANURY 8, 2021 - Workers produce disposable medical flat masks and N95 three-dimensional protective masks at a medical workshop in Qinhuangdao, north China's Hebei Province, Jan 8 ...

When health care workers Yasmin Samatar and Faraoli Adam were on the frontlines of the pandemic, they struggled to find personal protective equipment for Muslim women like them. So they launched ...

Manufacturers on Long Island are experiencing a rare boom-and-not-quite-bust cycle when it comes to personal protective equipment. They scrambled three years ago to convert production lines to meet ...

For 33 years, The Original Mattress Factory has manufactured and sold mattresses, but the Cleveland-based company recently ventured into the health care space with the launch of a new personal ...

As health care workers scrambled for personal protective equipment in the earliest months of the pandemic, a Department of Health and Human Services official proposed the idea of using "doggie cones" ...

A study has found that a new 'care bundle' can reduce the incidence of facial pressure injuries in frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers caused by the prolonged wearing of Personal Protective ...

In March 2020, along with reports of hospitals being overwhelmed amid the Covid-19 pandemic came news of the facilities being woefully under-resourced as well. Not only were hospitals struggling to ...

An Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) panel has published updated recommendations for using personal protective equipment (PPE) to safeguard healthcare workers from COVID-19, the ...