Smart devices, which range from watches to patches and other forms of sensors, can track heart rate, inflammatory markers, and other factors that allow patients to manage their health from their ...

"The mask represents a new paradigm for respiratory and metabolic disease management and precise medicine because we can easily get breath specimens and analyze the chemical molecules in breath in ...

"The mask represents a new paradigm for respiratory and metabolic disease management and precise medicine because we can easily get breath specimens and analyze the chemical molecules in breath in ...

Created by Prof. Wei Gao and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology, the EBCare (Exhaled Breath Condensate) mask is designed to monitor respiratory ailments including COPD (chronic ...

Face masks prevent disease droplets you cough, sneeze, or breathe from infecting others. They also help keep people who have COVID-19 or other illnesses from infecting you. As long as very ...

If breathing is a struggle right now ... Health experts say masking up with an N95 is the right option. These masks should be familiar — they’re what many people have used over the pandemic.

One important note: While the respirator’s exhalation valve makes it easier for the wearer to breathe — a good thing when dealing with hazardous air quality — it renders the mask useless in ...

This was especially true when masks were combined with hand hygiene. More recently, researchers measured the amount of virus present in exhaled breath from people with respiratory symptoms to ...

A review of 25 studies agreed that “there is a trade-off in that more layers increases the resistance to breathing.” The Happy Masks Pro was the only cloth mask we tested that has more than ...

In contrast to other smart masks being developed that monitor physical changes like the temperature, humidity, or rate of breath, this one, called EBCare, can analyze the chemicals in one's breath ...