Swiss researchers working on transparent face mask for medical workers, mass market. By Peter Aitken Fox News. Published June 12, 2020 5 ... blue and white medical masks. ...

Medical version of the surgical mask gets FDA approval By Mike Moffitt , SFGATE Aug 20, 2020 Baltimore-based ClearMask says its new transparent mask protects against the spread of disease without ...

A Swiss team has spent the past two years developing a transparent, breathable material that it hopes will replace traditional face masks. With the spread of the coronavirus, face masks have become… ...

The privately owned medical supply company, ClearMask LLC, in a news release today, said its ClearMask is “the world’s first FDA-cleared, fully transparent surgical mask that can be used in ...

Medical professionals will get first access to the masks in early 2021, followed by dentists. Eventually, the transparent masks could be marketed to the general public, but it's still too early to ...

The use of transparent masks during communication increases comprehension of speech by about 10% for people with hearing loss and people with normal hearing, according to a study published in the ...

Traditional surgical masks block mouths, which can impede effective communication. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for the world's first fully transparent surgical mask.

On average, the volunteers in all three groups correctly understood 83.8% of the sentences spoken without a mask, 68.9% of utterances with a see-through mask, and 58.9% with an opaque mask.

Transparent facemasks and shields are costly compared with classic counterparts but could prove a boon for the deaf and hard of hearing battling to communicate in the coronavirus era.

(CNN NEWSOURCE) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the okay for the world’s first fully-transparent surgical mask. They’re made by ClearMask, an American medical supply company.

On Tuesday (9 July), Geneva-based start-up Hmcare announced that it has raised 1m Swiss Francs ($1.05m) in funding to produce its HelloMask, which is a fully transparent surgical mask.