The improper use of personal protective equipment among healthcare workers is "pretty pervasive in all institutions," says a researcher. Nine months after a Texas nurse contracted Ebola from a ...

It’s the difference between transmitting the disease from health care worker to patient when you go room-to-room ... are more effective than other PPE alternatives given their length ...

Now, students warned three times for not using proper PPE in the Granoff practice rooms will have their access to the practice rooms revoked until the end of the semester. Sent on behalf of Richard ...

While the use of personal protective equipment or underprotection of workers remain more of a problem, there's a dirty little secret in safety. It's the problem caused by overprotecting employees.

That shortage has continued for months now, which the emergency room doctors claim leaves them, their co-workers and their families dangerously exposed. “We are reusing PPE in ways that were ...

No. Kelley Cabrera is an emergency room nurse at Jacobi… Kelley Cabrera: We want to help our patients, and we want to do it safely. Who led a protest to draw attention to the lack of PPE at ...

Massachusetts now has the third-highest number of COVID-19 infections in the U.S. with nearly 27,000 cases. The death toll is close to 850, and hospitals are bracing for a surge in new patients as ...

If it gets soiled or wet, you could go down and get a second.' But then when you go down to get it, the monitors for the PPE room, tell us, 'No.' They won't give that." Concerns about PPE within ...

The lawsuit accused China of nationalizing American factories producing PPE and hoarding protective equipment manufactured or available for sale in the US. “China’s campaign to hoard the ...