The COVID-19 pandemic increased public awareness of the importance of mask use for personal protection. However, when the ...

THURSDAY, May 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Wearing a face mask to protect others ... reduces the organs’ ability to filter out ...

You may notice swelling of your hands, feet and ankles as well as muscle cramps. It can affect our face and skin too, causing ...

Surgical face masks help prevent the spread of airborne pathogens and therefore were ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, a modified mask could also protect a wearer by detecting health ...

Researchers have embedded a breath sensor into a standard surgical mask to identify volatile metabolites associated with CKD, achieving promising diagnostic accuracy in initial tests.

But what about wearing a face mask to detect ... organs’ ability to filter out such waste. As a result, people with chronic kidney disease exhale elevated levels of ammonia, researchers noted.