Minnesota-based 3M still ships millions of respirators, though health care is not the major market it briefly was.

As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided.

As bird flu outbreaks continue to affect animals, experts answer questions about keeping pets and their owners healthy ...

Keep assembled pet carriers and leashes ready. Have your name, cell number and vet's name and office number written clearly on carriers. For more information on preparing pets for evacuation, see the ...

Few objects symbolize the pandemic as well as the N95. Impossible to find until they were ubiquitous, the double-strapped respirator stamped with all those letters and numbers confined many faces ...

The new exhibition honors the healthcare workers, community members and public officials that worked to build trust in the medical community during a time of crisis and uncertainty.

For turkey farmer Erica Sawatzke, Thanksgiving was going terribly. It was 2023, and while others were eating their turkey ...

Leading into the much-anticipated release of the state’s mapping of high fire severity zones, Menlo Park and Atherton fire, ...

Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID emergency, here's what the research says about face masks.

The pandemic accelerated economic disparity, revealing a disturbing acceptance of mass death. Did we learn nothing?

The scientists had stressed that the idea of airborne transmission of the new virus was still mostly theoretical, but they’d ...