The mask protects hospital staff by hindering a combative patient's ability to bite or spit. Being in a hospital can be stressful. Some patients take their frustration out on caretakers. This can be ...

PARIS — The rise in violent incidents at hospitals and doctors' offices has led clinicians to be on constant lookout for ways to keep themselves safe while caring for patients. At SantExpo 2023, well ...

Dec. 29—Mayo Clinic doesn't want cloth masks worn in its facilities. In an effort to limit COVID-19 spread amid a growing omicron variant wave, the medical institution is asking all patients and ...

Lawrence, Kansas, Facemasks are required sign in store window and someone is immunocompromised after the government lifted the mask requirement. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via ...

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) has implemented an updated masking policy, requiring visitors and patients ...

ST. CLOUD — Amid a surge in new COVID-19 cases in central Minnesota, the area's largest health care system announced stricter rules for masks and visitors that are designed to protect patients, ...

Days after Yale New Haven Health announced that staff will be required to wear masks during interactions with patients because of an increase in respiratory virus illnesses, more Connecticut hospitals ...

Is it possible to acquire extraoral images of patients while they are still wearing masks for protection against COVID-19? It's possible, if you take a few steps to counter artifacts that might ...