Autistic masking may be an evolved survival response to social risk: useful for belonging, but costly when sustained over a ...

Health systems are scaling back mask rules for staff, patients and visitors as respiratory virus season wanes. Now, health systems are once again loosening masking guidelines. MaineHealth ended ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra refused to admit at a hearing that mask mandates for toddlers during the COVID-19 pandemic were ineffective. Michael Brochstein/SOPA ...

This respiratory illness season, face masks are back in fashion. U.S. public health officials are encouraging people to take precautions against rising cases of COVID, influenza, respiratory syncytial ...

The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Patients and employees at University of Vermont Health Network’s three Vermont hospitals will no longer be ...

Back in the spring, around the end of the COVID-19 public-health emergency, hospitals around the country underwent a change in dress code. The masks that staff had been wearing at work for more than ...

MADISON (WKOW) — If you're heading to a UW Health hospital or clinic, be ready to mask up. UW Health said it is beginning its annual respiratory virus season masking. "To help protect patients and ...

Over the last few years, thanks to incredible awareness campaigns and notable figures like Sia and Christine McGuinness sharing their experiences, the public's knowledge of autism has certainly grown ...

Hospital systems in Rhode Island are requiring masking following a spike in cases of respiratory illnesses such as influenza and RSV. Infectious diseases doctors have been warning that the prognosis ...

The Office of Head Start (OHS), the federal program within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that provides preschool and child care services to low-income families, announced today ...