Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can have a potentially serious effect on your lungs. While some people can experience shortness of breath, others can develop pneumonia or a life-threatening ...

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 ...

• 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 ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nanotronics today announced that it has developed and designed nHale™, a bi-level positive air pressure (BIPAP) device to support spontaneously breathing adults weighing ...

As hospitals in New York City and beyond are facing a shortage of mechanical ventilators for COVID-19 patients in critical care, many are turning to readily available CPAP and BiPAP machines as a ...

With the coronavirus still spreading and cases of COVID-19 still mounting, mechanical ventilators are in notoriously short supply. That has physicians scrambling to find alternatives for patients so ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Over 25 million adults in the US suffer from obstructive sleep apnea ...

In Rochester, N.Y., Diane Coleman has relied on a machine to help her stay alive, but she worries that it might be slowly undermining her health. Her ventilator was among millions of breathing devices ...

Continuous positive airway pressure machines, otherwise known as CPAP, are used to help persons with sleep apnea, who may experience periods of impaired breathing through the night when throat muscles ...

I don’t want to be intubated. That was my main thought a few weeks ago as I lay in bed at home, having trouble breathing and watching my pulse oximeter show that my blood oxygen was under 93% when it ...