Wearing personal facemasks has been thought to provide an immediate and short-term practical solution to individuals living in developing nations, who seek to reduce their exposure to high levels of ...

(KPIX 5) -- People have been lining up at hardware stores and other locations in the Bay Area to snap up face masks to minimize their intake of unhealthy air. But the N95 respirators, so called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As case numbers of new, highly infectious strains of COVID-19 continue to increase across the country, face masks are more ...

With dangerous air quality from the devastating Camp Fire near Chico forcing hundreds of schools to cancel class, hundreds of thousands of parents to scramble for child care, and our lungs to scramble ...

This story is no longer being updated. Please visit kqed.org/wildfires for our latest wildfire-related stories and guides. These masks are used widely outside our ...

Some health care experts recommend the use of N95 respirator masks to help protect against wildfire smoke. Simple dust or surgical masks do not offer the same kind of protection, they warn. (Ana B.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO — The City of Sacramento is ...

Guess what’s happening with Canadian wildfire smoke now covering a lot of the Eastern U.S., triggering bad air-quality warnings. Many more people are wearing N95 face masks again. After all, such ...