As the coronavirus pandemic rips through the U.S., governors have made public pleas for more personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care and frontline workers, and for ventilators to help ...

Among patients with OSA, the risk for severe COVID-19 does not differ among those who are adherent vs nonadherent to CPAP.

A doctor in Washington was sentenced to a year in jail for a scheme involving recalled Philips CPAP machines. Sleep ...

For over 20 years, I have relied on a CPAP machine to manage my sleep apnea—a life-threatening condition that, if left untreated, can cause serious complications, including death during sleep. My ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Rather than weight loss and surgery, getting a CPAP machine has been the top go-to treatment for people with a severe snoring disorder called sleep apnea. But after the Food and ...

In a Nov. 28 safety alert, the FDA warned patients and healthcare providers to carefully monitor Philips machines used for obstructive sleep apnea after receiving reports that the machines have shown ...

An estimated 1 billion people between the ages of 30 and 69 across the globe suffer from sleep apnea, particularly ...

• CPAP machines, which are used by people with sleep apnea, have some superficial similarities with ventilators, raising the question of whether they could be adapted to ease the coronavirus-driven ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As doctors face a shortage of ventilators that are crucial for treating coronavirus patients with ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- An I-Team investigation into a recall of Philips Respironics Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines has many sleep apnea patients telling WBZ-TV they are now left with a ...

In less than a month, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories converted 100 respiratory machines New Mexico hospitals had on hand into machines that can safely be used as ventilators to treat ...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he’d be sending desperately needed “FDA-approved ventilators” to hard-hit hospitals across the nation dealing with the coronavirus crisis—but they haven’t been the ...