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 ...

Employees at the Shanghai factory where America's 3M Co. makes its surgical masks in China are working overtime to meet skyrocketing demand for the protective product as the deadly Wuhan coronavirus ...

Simple rubber band fix can modify surgical mask seal to N-95 respirators, reports a new study. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and when maximum protection is needed against air-born infections, the ...

Aimed at improving the quality of Indian surgical gloves to gain competitiveness in the global market, the Rubber Board along with Bureau of Indian Standards conducted a training programme for ...

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 ...

KIYOSU, Japan—Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. and the Japanese academic medical device start-up EBM Corp. have agreed to work together on the development and adoption of surgical training simulators using ...

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 ...