Face masks can help to reduce transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza, according to experts and medical evidence, but their effectiveness depends on the type of mask used. Social media ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. This month, David Plotz talks with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and author of The Seven Rules of Trust: A ...

Paul Hunter consults for the World Health Organization. He receives funding from National Institute for Health Research and has received funding from the World Health Organization and the European ...

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For decades, federal firefighters have trudged and parachuted into wildfires with only “a bandana and a prayer,” as the saying goes, to protect them from inhaling dangerous toxins. Meanwhile, studies ...

Virus-fighting startup Singletto closed a $10 million Series A investment round and is now selling its pathogen-killing face masks on Amazon. The Seattle company was also selected by the U.S. Defense ...

A county in California wine country is beefing up its vaccine recommendations and instituting a mask mandate, citing "greater risk" of contracting COVID-19 amid the start of the annual flu season. The ...

Meghan McCain is not backing down from her nepo baby criticisms of Violet Affleck, the daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, and the 19-year-old’s speech Tuesday at the United Nations General ...

Former View star Meghan McCain criticized nepo babies in a since-deleted social media post. The daughter of Sen. John McCain slammed Violet Affleck's UN speech about mask mandates. Violet is the ...

SAN DIEGO — A proposed California law banning law enforcement from wearing masks during most operations has been sent to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk for final approval. Senate Bill 627, also known as ...

The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke. The U.S. Forest ...