Aquarium pump breathing machine — A newborn breathes with help from the aquarium pump bubble CPAP machine. To keep the tubes in place, doctors and nurses use safety pins and rubber bands to attach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Philips Center is seen on Jan. 27, 2015, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Philips, the company behind a global recall of sleep apnea ...

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The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

Philips Respironics received thousands of complaints about a dangerous defect in its breathing machines but kept them secret for years as stock prices soared. The devices, including the popular ...

Philips Respironics has agreed to a $479 million partial settlement on claims over flaws in the company’s breathing machines that spewed gases and flecks of foam into the airways of consumers and that ...

Martha Ann Lillard, the last known person in the United States to rely on an iron lung after surviving polio, has died at age ...

Many people with sleep apnea struggle to keep wearing their CPAP machines all night because they find the treatment so uncomfortable. Now new research shows that your chronotype — whether you are a ...

Lou Gehrig’s disease took away Grace Armant’s ability to speak, but the 84-year-old still has plenty to say about her insurance. UnitedHealthcare has rejected several requests from her doctors for ...

Elderly patients nearing the end of their lives are increasingly placed on breathing machines as a sort of automatic reflex among physicians, according to Kei Ouchi, MD, an emergency medicine ...