With nationwide shortages of personal protective equipment for COVID-19, members of the Cornell community are working at the front lines of the crisis. Faculty, students and staff in the College of ...

Hypnosis can significantly improve patients' tolerance of masks to help them breathe when they are suffering from acute ...

How masking is a source of both power and protection. By Vanessa Friedman Six years ago, the face mask was a totem of mystery, reserved for hospitals, costumes and superheroes. Then Covid made medical ...

Everyone loves a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, too often our air is anything but fresh. While air quality varies dramatically from place to place and day to day, nearly the entire world - about ...

At the height of the pandemic, the world rightly used more than 100 billion disposable face masks per month. Now the ecological bill is coming due.