Even a short stay in hospital produces a large amount of waste. Just picture all the disposable items designed to be used ...
Healthcare workers across the US are facing severe shortages of protective gear as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise. As the US surpasses China with the world's largest coronavirus ...
Facing a dire shortage of protective face masks for health care workers, administrators at the University of Nebraska Medical Center decided they had no choice. As Coronavirus Looms, a Hospital Begins ...
Duke University Health System researchers have devised a way to decontaminate the N95 masks that hospitals nationwide have been clamoring for during the coronavirus pandemic. Duke University Health ...
Below are five of the top supply chain stories published by Becker’s Hospital Review in March, beginning with the most popular: MultiCare Health System, based in Tacoma, Wash., is reusing face masks ...
How does California plan to stem a personal protective equipment shortage? Hospitals will sterilize previously worn N95 respirator masks and reuse them. Across California, hospitals are readying ...
The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care workers can wear an N95 mask up to five times. But experts say how often the average person can safely wear one will vary depending ...
Whether being worn, piled up in trash bins, or scattered as litter in gutters and city streets, one of the most enduring symbols of the COVID-19 era is the billions of disposable face masks that ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. With every breath you take in an N95, particles accumulate on the mask, one health expert says. That could make it more difficult ...